Hi,
I'm searching for a book I've read during the mid-90th in German. But I think the book was older, maybe classic Scifi and was translated from English.
What I remember from the plot:
It starts with a common man who just lived his life but the life has started to fall into pieces. He has two children with his wife, but as requested the children are genetically enhanced and have extreme high IQs. They have left their parents willingly for a special school, and they were even before not much child-like.
This drove his wive into insanity (or into alcoholism/drugs). On his way home he find a body near their apartment and he fears to get convicted for the murder, cause he is the first one who is seen by the body.
Later his wife is executed for the murder, without a trial. She is put to death in a public arena with a laser. (But I think his husband didn't know this. He isn't informed. To him she just has disappeared.)
With his life torn apart, he starts running and on some day he even runs outside the city.
-- The whole population lives in cities and most are depend on a social allowance of kind of nutrition bars from a local food bank .. that are sometime - whoops - poisonous. Being outside of a city is counted as suspicious behaviour. Everything is controled by a big AI. --
He encounters kind of a resistance to the government outside the city and he joins them, eventually. In German the resistance is called "Renegaten" so maybe the original term is "renegades".
The resistance owns a big AI, too and during the endgame their AI fights the government AI. I remember the scene in which the renegade AI bids farewell to the main protagonist.
I can't remember how the book ended but I think the renegade AI 'died'.
Any ideas?
Greetings,
Mela
I'm searching for a book I've read during the mid-90th in German. But I think the book was older, maybe classic Scifi and was translated from English.
What I remember from the plot:
It starts with a common man who just lived his life but the life has started to fall into pieces. He has two children with his wife, but as requested the children are genetically enhanced and have extreme high IQs. They have left their parents willingly for a special school, and they were even before not much child-like.
This drove his wive into insanity (or into alcoholism/drugs). On his way home he find a body near their apartment and he fears to get convicted for the murder, cause he is the first one who is seen by the body.
Later his wife is executed for the murder, without a trial. She is put to death in a public arena with a laser. (But I think his husband didn't know this. He isn't informed. To him she just has disappeared.)
With his life torn apart, he starts running and on some day he even runs outside the city.
-- The whole population lives in cities and most are depend on a social allowance of kind of nutrition bars from a local food bank .. that are sometime - whoops - poisonous. Being outside of a city is counted as suspicious behaviour. Everything is controled by a big AI. --
He encounters kind of a resistance to the government outside the city and he joins them, eventually. In German the resistance is called "Renegaten" so maybe the original term is "renegades".
The resistance owns a big AI, too and during the endgame their AI fights the government AI. I remember the scene in which the renegade AI bids farewell to the main protagonist.
I can't remember how the book ended but I think the renegade AI 'died'.
Any ideas?
Greetings,
Mela
The resistance also had their own AI, a copy of the city AI. When created years ago, the AI knew human servitude was bad so created a copy of itself to create a challenge.
