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In which the Author Groks out
I’ve been using Grok AI to refine a book description. It’s helpful, but the robot has no appreciation for artistic prose if that is, in fact, what I can call my versions.
Write it for 4th graders, write to the target audience, or write better? What say you, readers and writers?
I wrote ... Nobody expects the Sasquatch Intervention.
If terms of rescue are accepted, Earth will survive a micro-nova event, penciled in for around 2040. Regrettably, our ruling factions will not change their ways to allow it. If unchecked, greed will prevail, and the planet will burn.
Subverted by the DC establishment, U.S. President Carmen Benequista is powerless to make a difference, but all is not lost. Her would-be suitor, former NSA security auditor Brandon Lopez, is more than a spectator within Jivada’s halls of power, where languish instruments of irresistible force.
The same may be said about first-contact survivor Mason Fowlkes, under Brandon’s wing since he was 6, growing up fast as an apprentice mechanic aboard an alien starship.
Elsewhere, French Air Force Lieutenant Marie Jourdain is on the rebound after a brief stint as the world’s youngest female fighter pilot, now unintentionally poised at the brink of opportunity.
In other news, a handful of maroli labor appliances have become self-aware. Egg-shaped grav-lift chassis. Bio-engineered tentacles strong enough to pull your arms off. Possessed perhaps by spirits of the dead and if so, anchored to a region where time and space converges, at the crossroads of prophesy and destiny.
The furry folk are adamant; humanity must carry out its own salvation. However, moral precepts notwithstanding, if a door to the armory is carelessly left open …
GROK wrote ... In 2040, a solar flare threatens to incinerate Earth, but the AjJivadi—enigmatic, shaggy aliens—offer technology to shield the planet, provided humanity unites against greed.
Corrupt global elites, entrenched in Washington’s shadows, sabotage the plan, craving power over survival. President Carmen Benequista, betrayed by her own government, fights to rally a fractured world.
Her ally, ex-NSA strategist Brandon Lopez, wields influence in AjJivadi councils, mentoring Mason Fowlkes, a 15-year-old prodigy mastering alien starship tech that could save—or shatter—Earth.
French pilot Marie Jourdain, grounded yet defiant, joins their cause, her skills key to a daring gambit. As sentient, tentacled machines awaken with eerie, otherworldly power, the AjJivadi warn: humanity must earn its salvation.
But if their arsenal falls to the wrong hands, all bets are off. A searing sci-fi thriller of betrayal and redemption.
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