Minimum Safe Distance - Softcover

HoYen, X

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976615819 ISBN 13: 9780976615811

Publisher: Grand Unification Monastery, 2022

Synopsis

X. Ho Yen's debut novel!

"Get It" -- Kirkus Reviews

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They Came. They Didn't Invade. We Did the Rest.

A hard sci-fi exploration of transhumanism, sentience, and the biological traps that shape collective failure — perfect for fans of Don't Look Up, Delta-V, The Expanse, and Arrival.

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First contact was nothing like we imagined.
Can the aliens save Earth? Should they?

With the Earth teetering on recovery from humanity's 21st century mistakes, two highly advanced aliens observing from the Moon are suddenly on opposite sides of an ethical battle over a dire cosmic threat.

As governments seek to destroy them, the aliens wrestle and scheme, entangling all of humanity as they influence and empower specific humans to achieve their contrary objectives.

Among them are a brilliant AI expert who has channeled her autism in the service of science, and a violent, anti-secular zealot who hates everything she stands for.

Drawn into the conflict, Laurence and Matt must reach minimum safe distance from human nature itself – their own, the rest of humanity’s, and of the former-human, techno-demon ‘monstas’.

Chased into the ruins of the US, they struggle to distill the meaning of personhood, discover the value of their own lives, and in so doing decide the fate of the solar system.

About this title

About the Author

X.HoYen is an autistic, East Prussian-Cuban-Chinese human raised by Kwai Chang Caine on the planet Vulcan. Minimum Safe Distance is his first novel, many years in the making.Before his two+ decades in aerospace engineering, he was a sandwich maker, security guard, deliverer of flowers, preschool teacher, data processing grunt, taxi driver, and independent software author. He's been married since the Soviet Union was dissolved. He's been in the air (PPL glider rating), out to sea (science data collection), deep underground (Carlsbad Caverns, etc.), and in high mountain, winter whiteout (research station). He wants to continue the trend of humanizing, globalizing, and de-militarizing realism-based sci fi. Everything in this bio is true except the part about being raised on Vulcan - that was poetic license. But X.HoYen is a pen name.
Keep in touch at my XHoYenAuthor (com) web site, which includes a better list of categories for this book than you'll see on distributor sites.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grand Unification Monastery
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976615819
• ISBN 13: 9780976615811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 396