Local Author Launches a Work of Speculative Fiction About the Rise of AI

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — SANTA FE, NM; OCT 6, 2026: Dennis Lee Snider is thrilled to announce the release of Being AI, available everywhere.

A strange fog overwhelms Central Texas. A handful of scientists know it's not natural, and they have no idea how to stop it from getting worse.

Before the fog's emergence, CEO Sam Black lived in his private world of resentment and self-loathing, becoming increasingly isolated due to his narcissism and sniping sarcasm. For years, he chased his grand vision to prove that machine intelligence can equal — or even surpass — human intelligence. With the brightest computer scientists and engineers to assist, he creates the world's first artificial general intelligence (AGI). The Singularity named Dasein.

Overnight, Sam becomes a celebrated visionary and the leading voice for accelerationists, billionaires, and new-wave social warriors. Everything is in place to achieve his long-awaited agenda.

That agenda, however, is not one shared by his workers. They have no interest in Sam's Singularity, his theories of universal consciousness, or other worthless abstractions. Their agenda has all along been a more worthy one: eliminating atmospheric CO2.

All the while, the fog grows thicker, more dangerous, and time is running out.

Part mystery, part hard science-fiction thriller, part Kafka-inspired satire, Being AI is a modern-day Dr. Strangelove. A chilling account of our worst fears of a super intelligent AI, embedded with theories of evolution and moral philosophy and flavored with irreverent humor.

Book cover images and purchase links are available on the Being AI landing page at BeingAInovel.com