Paying for Gaia Nova
Kyo Amaral is one of a long line of young men and women sent to the rich planets of the galactic hub to make the money to pay for Earth's greatest environmental project - the recreation of its flora and fauna on an unspoiled planet, Gaia Nova. Kyo adapts to his role in a megacity and is successful, but he has made enemies.
On his way home he is paid to stop on another world and make a report on its environmental problems. It’s a trap. He is targeted for elimination. He is kidnapped from an elite resort and held for ransom in a bandit state. During a battle between factions Kyo steals some valuables and flees across country in a hang glider. Finding refuge in a state that is corrupt rather than lawless he has to trade his valuables for a route off planet. Money of the right sort buys his tickets back to Earth and through its barriers to unwanted entrants.
This is the first novel in the series
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Fleeing To Gaia Nova
The ancients said Artificial Intelligence (AI) was anything their electric/electronic machines could not do. We have real Thinking Machines and we hardly notice them. They are there in the background running things for us.
Kyo and Melu, a young couple fresh out from Earth, had the rare experience of meeting a thinking machine face to screen as it were. It was no ordinary thinking machine. They had been collecting information about a part of Gaia Nova that predated the great environmental project to re-create the flora and fauna of Earth as it was at the dawn of human civilisation. A local revolt upended their plans and turned them into refugees in a jungle where the inhabitants had returned to the Stone Age. Then they met Crane, a thinking machine in hiding with a mission of its own. With Crane a new phase of their adventure began as humans and the thinking machine co-operated and used each other. Not the least of their challenges was manoeuvring their way around the Five Laws of Thinking Machines.
This is the second novel in the series
Castaway on Gaia Nova
Hidden among gas clouds, its listing on the star catalogue erased, the great environmental and economic project of Gaia Nova continued in isolation through millennia. As predicted, without fossil fuels civilisation regressed. Measures had been built in to the project to arrest the decline and encourage a renaissance. So far so good.
Threats to Gaia Nova’s isolation were rare. The thinking machines on guard repulsed fellow machines easily. The greatest and most dangerous challenge came from a pirate flotilla fleeing defeat. The thinking machines on guard were obliged to preserve the humans in the flotilla - while safeguarding the integrity of Gaia Nova. One man caught up in these events left this account of his adventures.
This is the third novel in the series