Can an artificial intelligence love?
In Brin, a virtual world, a young man discovers that magic is real. A spy, convinced she knows it all, is confronted with an unexpected love. Meanwhile, a new life form emerges on an overpopulated and hopeless planet, destined to change the future of humanity.
In another corner of the galaxy, a gifted teenager struggles to find her place in a society that rejects her.
Three love stories, in three different worlds, intertwine, challenging the boundaries of thriller, cyberpunk, fantasy and romance.
Embark on this journey to the stars and rediscover what it means to love in a universe of infinite possibilities.
With the title“Brin’s Black Tears” I continue the story that began in 11.4 Light Dreamsbut in an alternative way, answering many pending questions and expanding the story before continuing it. It can be read perfectly well without having read 11.4 Dreams light before.
You can find it on Amazon (Kindle), Kobo (Nook), Barnes & Noble and Google Play Store (Android readers), you can also buy it directly from me in my online store, the paper copies are signed and personally dedicated.
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“She was amused to go over her scarred body and look for new ones. The healing spell did not remove the scars, and the new ones were superimposed over the old ones. Alanna said her body was a book, a book of poems to pain. Grimm didn’t understand what she meant, but he liked to feel the touch of her hands on his bare skin. “
What readers say about “Brin’s Black Tears”.
“I think the premise is simply spectacular. It even manages to improve on the first part, and that’s already complicated. ”
Javier Miró of libros-prohibidos.com
“Brin’s Black Tears is more a story of emotions and feelings. Everyone who passes through its pages, AIs included, suffers from extreme melancholy […] Nicholas Avedon succeeds because he manages to transmit it without falling into cloying […] a recommendable novel“.
Francisco José Súñer Iglesias, from fiencia-ficcion.com
“A very good mix of entertainment, narrative beauty, fast-paced and intelligent interwoven themes make Brin’s Black Tears a highly recommended novel.”
Miriam Beizana, of Alibrería.com
“The story takes its time to develop, calmly but without stopping, as is usual in Nicholas’s books, until it reaches the point where it has us trapped. With a prose that intermingles the dirty and the depressive with the poetic, originating descriptions full of double meanings and bitter feelings”,
Daniel Arrebola (@Neotokio) on Mundosdeleyendas.com
“The thing is that I loved it, even more than the first one, I think it complements it and makes the story it tells more rounded. The way of linking with the first story seems great to me, totally unexpected, at least for me. “
Jayro, from Exlibris
“I already said it with 11.4 light dreams, Nicholas is a great writer, a great discovery that I hope and wish you like as much as I do.”
“Tiny snowflakes died languidly on her skin. Diving in that dark light, her eyes seemed liquid. Meanwhile, my fingers were trapped in her curls and all my memories swayed, intoxicated by her perfume. My whole life began and ended right there, surrounded by fog, darkness and warm snowflakes. Her, me, and our skin. The music around us was just another heartbeat, but the existence of everything else was dispensable, it didn’t matter. Time did not know how to cross that road that my hands climbed with skill. Our mouths met and there was no more need for light or music. Our fingertips listened and delighted in their journey along our back roads. “
“I recommend Brin’s Black Tears, it requires your full attention, as does 11.4 light dreams, but it’s very worth it to get to the end.”
“...special mention to a predominant theme in this novel and that, in part, is so implicit in such a natural way that it can go unnoticed… but all this plot is built on love stories. The love between lovers, between friends, between the confusion of the created and the creative hands. This is the engine that drives many decisions, even in those who are condemned not to feel. Nicholas addresses this feeling in all its facets, regardless of gender, social positions and protocols. Whether it is reflected through a female, male or other body. There is such a fluid freedom in this aspect that it is, to say the least, refreshing and meritorious. “
“Brin’s Black Tears is a novel that raises questions, that shows the need for escape, both literal and metaphorical, when faced with those physical and intellectual limitations that overlap interpersonal relationships. Avedon has a personal and intimate style that results in an exquisite fluidity; the characters speak for themselves, he has brought them to life. This book can be the drug of those in love with the genre. “
“…has become one of the best reads of 2018.”
“Brin’s Black Tears is an agile novel full of details that draws a dark and oppressive dystopian future in which there are a couple of possible ways of escape. But, above all, it is a novel in which we see the human essence of those who carry the weight of history on their shoulders exposed. “
“Nicholas’ pen is brutal and leaves you thinking about the book even though you have closed it.”
“Without warning, he plunged his hands inside, effortlessly, and took a piece from inside the tree. She turned to him so he could see it in detail. He gracefully kneaded the piece of wood and created a snowball. He blew and it turned to ice. Then he smiled and the snow suddenly melted into water, which floated in front of him in the form of a weightless bubble, until it suddenly disappeared, evaporated, dampening the atmosphere around him.”
the shell of men was getting harder and harder, so were the advertisers, a spiral that only ended when you disconnected and saw the world as it was with your biological eyes: gray, dark and wet.
“There is something very important that humans taught me.
-Don’t make me laugh, you still haven’t let go of that stupidity, do you still want to be like them?
-Hate. I have learned to hate myself, just like them. “
“He had won, he had lost, and after all this time, what had changed? Some corps had lost tens of millions because of his work. Others had grown, even gobbled up the weaker prey, using the information she had managed to spin. But what about her? She was still the same as she had been thirty years ago. Her teeth were dented from so much biting. She looked at her hands, and they seemed old to her. She was no longer a child. The muffled murmur of laughter in the street distracted her from her thoughts. A young couple from some new tribe she was unable to recognize. Their faces were tattooed with Celtic symbols and their hair was in blue dreadlocks. The girl’s eyes sparkled, and one of the boys strutted in front of her, competing with the rest of the boys. The world had changed a lot, but she had changed more. “
“A bionic cat grazed his left calf. They were never supposed to do that, that their instinct had been suppressed, that they were just biological platforms for carrying cameras and sensors. But sometimes it happened, the old DNA, centuries of rubbing and purring would break through from the flesh, between the wires and the interfaces. His eyes kept the pupil vertical, and his fur the soft, fluffy look of a feline. Synthetic fur made up of hundreds of sensors, and holocameras that didn’t need to blink, though they did from time to time to give the animal a little honesty. “
“The search for the honor of that man, Armand, which was now integrated into his spirit. Those little rules he tried to keep in order not to lose his sanity in a hostile world. Along with Armand, came in a flood the memories of Evi, Klaus, Claudia, Ethan, Reiner, Seena, Liam, Guy and so many other men and women who had rested in Armand’s body, and now rested in his. They were years and years of accumulated experience that made his body shake as if hundreds of little beings, trapped in his body wanted to get out. “
“A self-published work that far surpasses many of the books published by publishers in terms of narrative quality. Complex and ambivalent characters, vivid and radically opposed scenarios that Avedon manages to bring together in harmony.”
“The freshness of the story and its narrative style make it a book worthy of aligning itself with the greats of science fiction.”
“What I like most about the novel is the contrast of genres, so masterfully integrated with each other. Fantasy? Science fiction? Cyberpunk? “
Cristina Guerrero
“One of the things he loved most about the Dobbin was the mind-sync they had. Smooth and gradual, it seduced and it was almost impossible to avoid the vibration of the music synchronizing the thoughts of all listeners, making them enter a simultaneous trance where those who let themselves be seduced by the music moved and shared sensations in unison. Her body began to move rhythmically, coupling her movements. She walked, attracted by those vibrations coming from one of the tunnels of the main gallery. “
