"This pacey AI thriller sees a teen orphan battle the grip of Big Tech to prevent her late father’s world-changing AI algorithm from falling into dangerous hands."
Centred on a compelling, thought-provoking AI data concept, Neil Taylor’s Anticipation debut boasts contemporary bite, and a strong sense of twisting conspiracy and high-stakes urgency.
After her father’s sudden death in a plane crash, 17-year-old Riya Sudame inherits access to his revolutionary AI algorithm when she becomes a Keyholder custodian of his Anticipation Machine that can predict people's futures using their online data. As revealed by his former colleague: “Your father’s creation literally predicts people’s futures. If someone got hold of this and embedded it in a social-media platform with millions of users, they might just end up controlling the future of the whole world”.
While Riya’s dad had created the algorithm to help ordinary people make better choices, in the hands of greedy corporations, all manner of mayhem might be unleashed. As a result, she’s forced to go on the run from a powerful social media tycoon who’ll stop at nothing to have access to the algorithm, and the influence it will grant him.
Sinister, suspenseful and twisty, the writing is immensely detailed on Riya’s every action and thought as she grapples with tortured decisions and faces grave peril. Above all, Anticipation is a gripping thriller that’ll make you think about what you reveal through your own online engagement and interactions.
| Primary Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
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You are being played.
Your every move is being watched by businesses hoping to manipulate your behaviour. Every picture, every post, every like, every follow, every purchase, every search.
When 17-year-old Riya Sudame inherits her father's secret AI algorithm, she and a handful of carefully selected Keyholders hold the power to predict people's futures using their online data. But with great power comes great responsibility, and they must safeguard it from falling into the wrong hands.
Enter Jim Booker, a powerful social media tycoon, who will stop at nothing to steal the technology for himself. Soon Riya faces a critical choice. Fighting ruthless tech giants seems like an impossible task-wouldn't it be easier to relinquish her father's creation in exchange for a normal teenage life?
But if she does, she will have to live with the knowledge that she is the reason that, like everyone, you are being played.
Neil Taylor marks his debut in this dark, twisty AI thriller.
Anticipation features in the following genres: Young Adult Fiction, Thriller and Suspense, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Computing and Information Technology, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Fiction, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Science and technology, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
Anticipation is available in Paperback
Anticipation was written by Neil Taylor and published by Neem Tree Press
Anticipation has 296 pages
£8.09
