Publisher's Synopsis
Frank Mead believes that humanity is plunging headlong into a mass extinction event and no one and nothing can stop it. To pass the time while waiting for the worst to happen, he is writing a personal history filled not only with happy childhood memories but with loneliness, violence, sexual abuse and alienation. In other words, he is describing a typical Southern childhood. Before he can finish, his life and work converge, mutating into an entirely new form of hero's journey: Frank has recently agreed to participate in an experiment to determine if it is possible for a human to peacefully coexist with an all-knowing artificial intelligence. The AI is the creation of Aaron Zizaki, a billionaire game developer who is trying to create a super intelligence able to inhabit a living human being. Believing that humans are on the verge of self-extinction, Zizaki plans to create a transhuman race with the compassion and wisdom necessary to solve the problems of war, greed and suffering without having to eliminate homo sapiens in the process. The events that follow lead Frank to wonder whether he and the AI are about to unleash havoc on the world, save it, or both. A Brief History of Civilization is the third book in Michael Aro's Apocalypse Trilogy.
