The Shores Beyond Time (Chronicle of the Dark Star Book 3)

“Everyone dies,” Barrie said almost to himself, “if you tell the story long enough.”

Does that spark in our minds come merely from some interaction between our interests, emotions, and the world around us, or could it in fact be something more: perhaps our faintest perception of some energy that our earthbound senses can’t quite perceive, or even an awareness of some higher dimension of reality?

An artificial intelligence is built with a specific goal, or task, in mind, something that the beings who created it could not accomplish themselves. Whether that goal is good or bad must initially come from the beings who created it.”

“Everyone dies, if you tell the story long enough!”

“Well, that makes about as much sense as anything else that’s happened

“Don’t you need your crystal for that?” “I can borrow it from my earlier self.” “You—of course you can.”

thinks of me as a god, but I’m more like a proud parent.

“You humans really are the chosen species of the entire freakin’ universe.

to our old universe