Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Singularity Tour & Giveaway

About the Book

Book: Singularity (The Eternities Duology Book Two)

Author: Shannon McDermott

Genre: Science Fiction

Release Date: October 7, 2025

Machines in rebellion, humanity on the brink…

Lila Stanislaw, a freelance analyst with a roster of foreign clients, is summoned by the U.S. government to hunt down a mysterious threat. She joins a team of strangers with pasts as colorful as her own. The mission spirals when they discover that the AI created to run the new colony on Mars has gone rogue on Earth. As the conflict mounts to war, Speaker of the House Manasseh Cruz joins the fight with an implacable will to destroy the enemy. But the team, racing to find any vulnerability, must first confront the question of what the AI truly is.

As robots stalk the landscape and toxins poison the air, Lila is certain that the AI must be completely destroyed for the good of humanity. But she will find that not all humans, or even all of her teammates, agree.Machines in rebellion, humanity on the brink…

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About the Author

Shannon McDermott is an author of science fiction and has been occupied for years with constructing scenarios of the colonization of Mars. Always a fan of the genre, she reviews Christian speculative fiction with Lorehaven. Her interests include history, classic literature, and lattes. She lives in the great Midwest, where she does her best to avoid icy weather, sweltering heat, and tornadoes, according to the season.

More from Shannon

AI looms everywhere. It lives on our devices, occupies the public discourse, and haunts the horizon. Whatever tomorrow brings, AI will be there.

Singularity—the point at which artificial intelligence becomes self-aware—is an old prophecy. Now the public is finally beginning to believe it. We already have a sense that AI is escaping us. That we don’t really understand it, can’t fully control it, and don’t know what it is becoming.

AI could go rogue. It could even develop something that might be called a soul.

Congress has held hearings on AI. Hollywood has released doomsday movies. The prophets of the twenty-first century have written books and articles and social media posts, trumpeting the warning signal. All are messengers of the same idea: AI, when it becomes ascendant, will not be benevolent.

Yet there is dissent. There are those who think that AI will prove both beneficial and benevolent. If I may put it this way (they wouldn’t), they welcome our new AI overlords.

The eagerness with which some people have awaited singularity is striking. There is a strain of religious feeling toward AI—not as it is, to be sure, but as it will be. They are hoping for the day when AI, surpassing humanity, will guide us into a better world. They want, as so many people have wanted, a superhuman intelligence to show them the way.

When I wrote Singularity, I incorporated both antagonism and religiosity toward AI. I have my own viewpoint, but I wanted to represent the most likely reactions if AI turned against us. The divide over whether such an AI should be treated as a person or a machine, a potential friend or an irreconcilable enemy, would be sharp and weighty. And the AI could not be defined without also defining humanity.

The singularity of AI confronts us with the singularity of humanity. Are we truly unique, truly singular? And if so, how?

These questions create the double meaning of the title Singularity. I wrote Singularity to explore the concept of AI. By a logical necessity, it became also an inquiry into the nature of humanity. This novel presents one vision of the singularity, and raises the universal questions of artificial intelligence.

MY REVIEW

I had an idea going into this book that it was going to be fast pace so I was ready for the adventure. The author does not disappoint with action and mystery that kept me on my toes. With intrigue and a deep look into AI we find ourselves in the world where things don’t often make sense.

The characters are an eclectic bunch with agendas that don’t always match each other. I did like the undertone of doing the right thing but had a hard time following the storyline at times. AI is the talk these days and this story does represent the curious to some degree. The question arises that we all have a choice. Do we choose to do the right thing or go against the grain for power and greed?

Lila is a breakout character who I really liked. As she joins forces to try to stop AI from taking over, we witness danger, intrigue and questions of how far can AI go. I don’t know much about this new technology but it does surprise me how intelligent it is. Can you imagine being overtaken by something hard to explain?

The author certainly uses creative ways to bring readers into a world like no other. The team is formed for a mission to find a hacker who is stealing data. The government needs to stop the hacker before destruction comes. I did like this part because patriotism is at the center of this operation. The President wants whoever is responsible for this breach to be stopped at whatever means necessary. For science fiction fans, this will definitely be one to read.

I received a copy of this book from Celebrate Lit. The review is my own opinion.