Books by E W Farnsworth

E. W. Farnsworth's brainy and visionary short stories in this volume are meant to be read individually as invitations to other of his creations. The uncanny interplay of the writer and his context can be understood by the thoughtful, patient reader capable of perceiving semantic patterns beneath the surface of words. The excerpt from ïNightworld: A Novel of Virtual RealityÍ inspired the cover image for this book since the woman with the wolf in the forest is a boundary-crossing Artificial Intelligence.Part of FarnsworthÍs epic vision for the future of humankind, AIs and robotics, the stories from ïDarkFire' and 'DarkFire ContinuumÍ weave a continuous cosmology as the adventures of the spaceship ïArcturus' begin.These stories reveal how their many intellectual games open vistas to the authorÍs past and future stories as well as to inventions and discoveries on the far-horizon of human thought.E. W. Farnsworth is currently working on a visionary epic poem, ïVoyage of the Spaceship Arcturus'.

Since the appearance of E. W. Farnsworth's 'DarkFire at the Edge of Time' in early 2016, the importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has increased exponentially. From AI to robotics, 2016 was long prophesied as the year when the machines would start "taking over", Now it is happening, according to Vivek Wadhwa of Crunch Network. Yet AIs and robots have come as our friends and helpmeets to improve our lives. They will become, as Lincoln wrote, the "better angels of our nature." From the 'Sarah Tetralogy' through the journey of Spaceship Arcturus conveying brilliant humans, artificial intelligences and avatars beyond the end of the universe, to 'Renaissance', which recounts the spaceship's successful return to instantiate a new Eden which replaces the black crisp that humans have made of Earth, these stories continue in the vein of DarkFire and his friend, the inimitable Loc Phuket. Science Fiction to some, perhaps, yet, day by day, increasingly part of our current events.