Thoughts on Disruptive Supremacy. Lester muses about the ethical and existential challenges posed by exponentially advancing technologies—namely robotics and artificial intelligence.
He warns of how advanced robotics—particularly androids—could replace all human labor, unravel the family unit, and challenge the fundamental human needs for meaning and purpose. He analyzes the potential rise of technocratic oligarchy, where the few control the many through increasingly disruptive technologies threatening political order, the erosion of rights, and social stability. Lester’s work emphasizes the importance of preserving human dignity and the delicate social fabric that binds us in a world facing unprecedented technological upheaval.
A gritty, visceral Civil War novel written in Lester’s stark prose tells the story of a world where one’s soul is in an existential war against man’s brutal nature.
All hell has broken loose after John Brown’s raid. Elmira Beaumont, a plantation mistress, worries after her only son, Noah, ends up under the command of their hated family rival Ambrose de Bellomonte—now an active Confederate general.
Alone in the world, young Emma arrives at Beaumont plantation after losing her father during a failed escape. Meanwhile, Isaiah, once the educated companion of Noah, has been cast out of the mansion and condemned to the fields. He’s plotting a bloodbath until a new girl piques his interest.
‘House of Crimson Roses’ is an epic family saga about the death and rebirth of the Beaumont family. Masters and slaves within the family struggle with love, loss, the opiate of vengeance, and the promise of redemption while the bloody thread that binds them is the upheaval of civil war.
Unnatural things are happening on an isolated island off the coast of Alaska.
Just when Belle had thought her life couldn’t get any weirder—she finds herself arrested for murder. Only a few months ago she lived in a peculiar village, cut off from civilization, where she suffered from bizarre hallucinations and nightmares. Then she received a mysterious invitation to work for the world’s most brilliant scientist—the enigmatic Sophia Eccleston. The pay was outstanding. The accommodations, second to none. The catch? Belle had to live on isolated island and follow strict, often bizarre, security protocols.
Meanwhile a slaughterhouse worker is declared obsolete, replaced by machines, and becomes a bearded recluse. As he sits in his crumbling manor awaiting the cancer to take him—he too receives an unusual invitation to the strange island where either his salvation or damnation await. Things aren’t going well for Sophia either. She faces the hostile takeover of her life’s work—her company—all while striving to keep the identity of her eight-year-old daughter a secret. They all meet on an isle where murder-machines and transgenic creatures run amok in a gothic odyssey where technology has been unleashed.
Ambitious in scope, Continuum vividly moves through slices of time—from ages past, the present, and into the unknowable future.
The stories question our deepest subconscious passions and asks—how much control do we really have? Can good people be conditioned to commit atrocities? Is it possible for kindness and cruelty to exist within the same person? Can our species ever extricate itself from our worst tendencies? In the most interconnected age in human history—why are some of us so alone?
