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Are his Maker machines an irresistible trap?

Or is Philip Machen offering the world a fresh start?

He never talked about subverting the world’s elites or empowering millions of ordinary people until he’d already done it. By then, it was too late. Curse him, worship him, or ignore him, the Freemakers must figure it out now, before Tory vigilantes crush the future they desperately seek.

Like those around him, Everett Aboud is stuck in his own personal dead-end.

Until Makers change everything for everyone.

And set him free.

Overnight.

You’ll love Maker Messiah because it’s more than the sum of its parts.

It’s a vision to die for.

Get it now.

(This work is not religious)

https://edmiracle.com/maker-messiah-the-novel/

Maker Messiah wins Best Sci-Fi Award

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Maker Messiah has won the Best Science Fiction Award for 2019 from IndiesToday. See all their book awards at https://indiestoday.com/award-winner-badges/

Also Winner of the Famous

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Serious Imagining

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EdMy name is Ed Miracle and I care about the future. I want our futures to be better than the status quo, so I’ve done some serious imagining of how one technology might enable genuine social progress. The passion that drives my writing is the conviction that progress is not only possible, it might be inevitable. Got freedom?

Coming to a World Near You

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The Maker Advent will not be violent. You will not see it coming. But beware the aftermath. Every business, every bank, every market will fail. You will lose your job, your retirement and all the money you have. You will share and trade and hustle just to stay alive. You will build a Freemaker community, where most goods are free and the remaining “jobs” are shared. Or you will join a Tory militia, to save America from Philip Machen’s Freemaker insurgency. Got freedom?

Economics in Science Fiction

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In a recent issue of Asimov’s, James Patrick Kelly laments in his “On the Net” column, the absence of economics as a structural component in science-fiction stories. I hope James will read this post because a new source of economic power creates plenty of trouble in my novel, Maker Messiah. It’s not just the unintended consequences of the new technology, though plenty of those arise. It’s the intended consequences of Philip Mahen’s machines that create the biggest problems and the nastiest dilemmas.

Economists study how we allocate scarce resources via markets and money and enough statistics to circle the planet. Ho-hum. Until that is, Philip deliberately vaporizes the lynchpin of all economic behavior. When his Maker machines threaten to replace perpetual scarcity with universal plenitude, the wheels come off every economy in the world. Microcapitalism for the masses becomes Armageddon for the power elites, but it’s just the beginning of a new moral sensibility. And the realization of Philip’s dreams.

Tech-driven Morality in Maker Messiah

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Can lifeless technology improve human behavior?

In his book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, psychologist Steven Pinker argues that Western societies have already altered our baser natures for the better, partly through technology. But could a single technical advance create lasting moral improvements in weeks or months, rather than over decades or generations?

Despite steady progress in science and technology, there hangs a vast suspicion today over the very idea of technology advancing the human condition. Smartphones and cancer drugs, yes. Compassion, not so much. Even in fiction, powerful new technologies almost always portend dark and brutish futures.

Instead of examining the potential flaws in this perspective, or arguing that the proverbial glass is half-full rather than half-empty, Maker Messiah dares to ask: What sort of technology could plausibly change human behavior for the better? Not 100 years from now, but tomorrow.

If Maker tech blows through our assumptions about scarcity, what happens to the moral sensibilities we have based on those assumptions? Notice the technology comes first, with the rationalizing and explaining (morality, religion, philosophy) following along afterward.

Could Philip Machen’s Makers become a reality? Are the 3-D printers being tested today harbingers of true matter replicators? If so, no one would be more surprised than I. Yet if matter-energy transmutation is possible on a practical scale, I believe it will be done. Then we will really have to pay attention. Got freedom?

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