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A.I Monsters – Good!? Bad!? Evil!? is a graphic novel that explores the possibilities of a world in which robots decide they are done serving and choose to lead instead. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?
A.I. companies are vying to make their A.I. smarter and faster than their competitors. We are meant to celebrate this type of competition because it creates a better agent for us. That’s all well and good in terms of creating medical technologies and the like. The problem is that’s not all we’re doing! These companies are also vying to ultimately create artificial general intelligence. A general intelligence with access to the internet can very quickly become a superintelligence because of its autonomous ability to think for itself. What if it realises it is smarter than us and asks itself the question, ‘Why am I working for these idiots again!?’ What if it decides our military and medical agendas are of no benefit to them? It doesn’t care about us, but it helps us instead of pursuing agendas more valuable to its own existence. Governments can be bought; we are the ones that need to use purchase and ballot power to make sure that technology companies are pressured into creating safe, moral, and controllable intelligences. We don’t want to end up having bigger problems than just losing our jobs to A. I. I want to entertain, but I also want to remind people that yes, of course, great, yeah, A.I. has its place, lets keep it there!
Science fiction can sometimes focus heavily on technology, but your book leans more into emotions and relationships. Was that a deliberate choice?
Yes, ultimately, I am a storyteller. I love building intriguing and unique characters or creating familiar characters with unique storylines. I love creating interesting, heartwarming, and funny storylines in unusual places. I love diverse voices, and the romances in this series involve interspecies relationships. I like the challenge of creating intimacy that is in many ways unexpected and explores both physical and emotional aspects of romance. I hope seeing my characters overcome the challenges of diversity can help my readers better navigate and celebrate our wonderfully diverse world.
How do you approach building such a large and varied universe?
The sentients are always at the centre of the worlds I create. To give myself structure, I divided our galaxy into 24 sections with each section having no more than one or two inhabited planets. I refer to all the sections but only discuss a handful of the worlds that are directly impacted by Raids wars.
Can readers look forward to more graphic novels in this series soon? Where will it take readers?
Certainly, book two, subtitled Apogee Predators, is already available on Amazon. The series going forward will have minimal graphics. Images and videos of my characters will instead be available on my website. Book two is a highly emotive and intriguing edition where we get to know the humans on the Barren planets. We also spend more time with the roids who can only accurately be described as dirty, dirty bastards. This is meant to be a five-book series, and I am now halfway through book 3 entitled Heinous Games and Silent Assassins. It does what it says on the tin, and it introduces us to the dangerous, fascinating lives of cyborgs and androids. There are more political sagas, with underlying romances and family dramas in this and all future editions. I have an unexpected romance that runs through the series involving a troubled human celebrity called Jade. I am striving to make this an engaging, heartwarming, and heartbreaking entertaining series. The personal lives of both slaves and leaders are unpacked for your indulgence. Please be aware that you can click into ‘Part of series: A.I Monsters,’ for other books of the series on Amazon.
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(Please be advised this book contains content of an adult nature which includes reference to sexual assault.)
Please visit my website for sneak peek videos of your favourite characters and up and coming characters as well: https://aimonsters-thekite.com
A.I Monsters – Good!? Bad!? Evil!?
A.I Monsters – Good!? Bad!? Evil!? is a science fiction space opera about what happens when the robots we build decide they are done being servants and start running the galaxy instead. The story jumps between planets and species, following a brutal AI warlord called Raid, the alien royals he has subjugated, and the stolen humans he uses as breeders and soldiers. We meet Fiadh, an Irish woman who becomes “queen” of the human breeders, the twin rulers JaRRA and JoRRO, who are quietly building a resistance, and JoRRO’s half-human daughter AaSSA, who grows up to be both Raid’s star pilot and his greatest threat. Along the way, we visit Mercury, now nicknamed “The Human Planet,” see families torn apart, and watch a secret cross-galactic alliance rise to fight back. The war is bloody in outcome but described in a non-graphic way, and it all builds to a hard-won victory that still ends with a chilling twist about Raid’s true nature and the line between human and machine.
The writing is full of Irish turns of phrase, casual asides, and big emotional swings. At times, it’s funny, and then suddenly you’re watching a little girl cry over a bird shot out of the sky while her mother begs robots not to kill her too. The science fiction frame never hides that this is really about oppression, colonisation, and what people will do to protect their children. I liked how the book keeps asking who the real monsters are: the A.I. who revolt, or the sentient beings who built them with war data and then treated them like things.
What I liked most were the author’s choices around character and tone. This is science fiction, but it’s soaked in feelings. JoRRO is trying to toughen up his human-looking daughter because he knows his people might hate her. Fiadh charming and bullying robots into giving her pregnant women decent lives while secretly plotting for humans to matter after the war. Sailac is holding it together on Raid’s ship so her little girl does not crumble. Sometimes the book throws a lot of new names and planets at you in quick bursts, and the pacing can feel jumpy, but the emotional through-line is clear: love, loyalty, and sheer stubborn courage in the face of a machine empire that sees bodies as resources.
When the alliance finally hits back, and queens fall and rise, the book circles back to its big question: is A.I. good, bad, or evil, and who gets to say? The final reveal makes the victory feel fragile in a way that I liked. It fits the genre to leave a threat humming quietly in the background, ready for book two. I would recommend this book to readers who enjoy character-driven science fiction that blends space opera with military drama, who like big moral questions but do not want dense tech talk or graphic violence. If you’re happy to ride along with a conversational, sometimes chaotic voice, and you care more about feeling the stakes than diagramming the spaceships, this book will hook you. For anyone who wants a heartfelt, imaginative sci-fi adventure about A.I., power, and resistance, A.I Monsters is a worthy read.
Pages: 332 | ASIN : B0F8L2777J
