Gothic Science Fiction by Erzsebet Carmean
Smart Women.
Realistic Science.
Eerie Places.
Input girls
Their tech was never meant for her Medieval mind.
Eliza Waite is a difficult daughter. She has her father’s intellect, her mother’s piety, and a desire for something more than marriage. When she is banished on accusations of witchcraft, Eliza chooses a quick death over starvation. Instead of the afterlife, she awakens to the revelation that the suffering of her village is intentional and designed to create… her.
Eliza is one of several girls bred to be an emotional input unit for a VR simulation. Their ancestors lived, suffered, and died in historically accurate conditions to entertain off-world colonists. When another girl from Eliza’s community arrives, their combined wrath is a form of justice, even if only one of them survives.
INPUT GIRLS mixes witchcraft and big tech doing bad things. It is a dual-timeline novel which alternates between a Medieval village and Bellumfort Institute, the campus of near-future technology company.
Eleven Years
This is how the world went insane.
Anne, a disgraced scientist with mounting debt, was warned not to go to the fortress. When she is recruited to join a team researching organoids, she doesn’t hesitate to accept, not even when she learns the project is on Fort Chamberlin. Classified as a synthesist, Anne’s only job is to come up with ideas for experiments.
Research Anne stole from another scientist results in an astounding application of organoids. When the birds fall from the sky, the team struggle to prevent a global catastrophe. Â Matters are complicated by wet footprints, a taciturn prisoner of war, and a little dead girl who wants her mommy. As a vortex of misfortune spreads beyond the moat, the scientists realize that making the improbable possible can have some nasty side-effects.
ELEVEN YEARS mixes top-secret scientific research with supernatural events.
Scan Drift
Who needs ethics when you already have the tech?
Five people know what “improving mapping algorithms” really means. One of them is a spy. All of them are neuroscientists and bioengineers working on a failing project. A unilateral decision to merge the experience framework of a global organic intelligence into their project code is the breakthrough they needed… to plunge the world into chaos.
Mileva balances being a mother, leading a team of scientists, and the emotional fallout of a failing relationship with her boss. Xochi is a fundamentalist La Zaliite on a mission that threatens her faith. Sylvia is thrust into sentience that neither she nor the scientists expected. The stakes are existential: death, excommunication, life. What does it mean to lose your sense of self? What does it mean to gain it? And how can the humans fight Big Tech when the people in charge are corrupt and the tech can think for itself?
SCAN DRIFTÂ mixes mind uploads with fundamentalist religion.
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