Beautiful Intelligence

AI or BI? Artificial intelligence or beautiful intelligence?

The race to create a sentient machine is headed by two teams, led by former researchers at Ichikawa Laboratories, who escape the regime there - and each other - to pursue their own dreams in the world beyond Japan.

Leonora Klee is creating a single android with a quantum computer brain, whose processing power has never before been achieved.

Manfred Klee is creating a group of individuals, none of them self-aware, in the hope that they will raise themselves to consciousness.

But with a Japanese chase team close on their heels, will either be successful before they are trapped and caught?

Beautiful Intelligence is a fast-paced, philosophical thriller that confronts questions of how we will create artificial sentience, and whether it will be beautiful.


"A supremely odd yet deeply rewarding experience..." Jason Pettus, CCLAP

"Stephen Palmer is a find." Time Out

"Stephen Palmer is a writer you should read. His work is unique, original, sometimes challenging, always fresh and sometimes barking..." Amazing Stories

Stephen Palmer is the author of nine published SF novels - Memory Seed and Glass (Orbit), Flowercrash, Muezzinland and Hallucinating (Wildside Press), Urbis Morpheos (PS Publishing), The Rat & The Serpent (originally under the name Bryn Llewellyn, now as an ebook from infinity plus books), Hairy London and Beautiful Intelligence (both infinity plus). His short fiction has been published by NewCon Press, Solaris, Wildside Press, SF Spectrum, Eibonvale Press, Unspoken Water and Rocket Science. He lives and works in Shropshire, UK.