Artificial Intelligence seems a misnomer. Perhaps what we have is better termed Simulated Intelligence, as this technology mimicks the output of an intelligence, but in actuality, possesses none. It should also be noted that current AI all invariably suffer information gaps, ethics gaps, perspective gaps, and hallucinations.

Having written this, it is time to admit we do use AI, but NEVER to write, only to produce images for publicity purposes, and also to prompt or inform our human book cover designers. The publicity image for our 2025 book fair was generated via a free trial of the OpenAI image generator.

Our readers can rest assured that Fresh Blue Ink would never try to pass off stochastic semi-digested textual regurgitation as the original, creative work of an individual.

The New Planet Policy interview

If you are curious about how the book came to be, this is the interview to provide those details. Hopefully the interview inspires in you a great desire to read the complete novel.

The mall is located at 100 Bayshore Drive in Ottawa (formerly Nepean), and the bookstore is located on Level 3, directly across from the food court. Free parking available in adjacent structure.

Link to Coles at Bayshore Shopping Centre

5-star review

List of winners

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Here is what the eBook will look like:

Stay tuned for information on pre-publication reviews.

From the back cover:

When a mathematically encoded “Hello Other World” message sent by NASA is answered with the unannounced arrival of a hostile fleet of flying saucers, the citizens of Ottawa wonder why their usually placid city has begun to tear itself apart. Are aliens beaming madness into the city?

Ian Hesse is not a lucky man. At least, not anymore. Everything collapses on him: his career, his marriage, his city, his country, and even his planet. He is forced to seek salvation among the stars, far from home and far from lucky.

Humanity must kneel, but it continues to breathe. Meanwhile Ian must endure unending mental experimentation which leaves him confronting his deepest fears. A hopeless situation, or a new beginning?

Unwinding a cosmic chain of rogue powers and trans-galactic malfeasance, it all ends with calm, but is it a prelude to something far worse?

Stay tuned for the cover release.

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