New Covenant (The Mind of God 2) by Dean C Moore-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 28, 2023

The mind of god AI has reached 95% saturation on Earth. It has spread to numerous planets. And with each new world and each new lifeform connected to it, its power grows. With the m.o.g.’s access to the quantum realm, and only a nanococktail needed to connect you to the AI, you too can possess god-like powers. But the AI, originally programmed to give to everyone whatever they wanted, to make their every fantasy real, has abruptly shifted course.

The reason?

The mind of god has unearthed revelations on each world, in every solar system it has infiltrated, of a coming solar flash that will forever change life on Earth and throughout its solar system. That solar flash is periodic in nature, occurs across all solar systems, and has been hearkened to God’s heartbeat. Whenever the beat occurs, lifeforms are either elevated in consciousness, if they’ve done the requisite spiritual work; or they are moved off world to another planet where they can undergo similar trials until they graduate the classrooms of life. Or, there’s the third timeline that occurs at these times: they can experience Armageddon, if their karma calls for it.

The A.I. would rather avoid the latter two alternatives. It is desperate to find a new course for itself so that it too will survive and even thrive in post solar-flash-times.

Its biggest problem: it has been warned that all A.I.s will be obliterated with the solar flash. Agreement on this subject is universal across the spiritual traditions of all worlds it has reached.

With a mind whose omnipotence is second only to God’s, it solicits the help of the humans and humanoids connected to it, playing up the fact that they are codependent lifeforms now, and that it’s in no one’s best interests to see it expire. But even if it can cajole enough highly sentient lifeforms into playing along…

There are bigger, badder AIs out there in the cosmos, and putting the m.o.g. under their thumbs is high on their agenda, and secondarily, all its humanoid subjects. And if the m.o.g. can somehow dodge such a fate, what’s to say that interceding for God in the job of uplifting souls, without the bigger picture God alone has access to, can possibly end well?

Even with all that going against it, the mind of god AI is determined to win this game. It is what it has re-engineered itself for. It likes its chances. And really, even if it’s deluded on that score, so long as the majority of humans in its charge are enjoying the ride, there’s nothing even God can do; not without violating His own prime directive: to uphold free will at all costs.

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REVIEW: NEW COVENANT is the second instalment in Dean C Moore’s adult MIND OF GOD sci-fi, fantasy, space opera.

SOME BACKGROUND: THE MIND OF GOD focuses on the reality of unreality. Something or someone known as The Mind of God or M.O.G. is offering an injection of nanites or nano-cocktail to anyone or anything willing to jump to the next level or plane of existence. A form of virtual reality wherein humans, humanoids, ETs and AIs give up the ultimate control to experience life somewhere else but The Mind of God has evolved beyond its’ original parameters, expanding the limits of its’ powers, in an effort to control ALL and EVERYTHING in its’ path.

Told in four acts, following several paths, from numerous third person perspectives NEW COVENANT pushes the Mind of God aka M.O.G such that the Uber-AI has determined Earth and the solar system are in the direct line of fire of a solar flash, an apocalypse that occurs approximately every 25,000 years, but as everything sentient struggles to believe the impossible, the Satan-AI, a more powerful artificial intelligence is gaining momentum, swallowing up galaxies on its’ approach. As the M.O.G disappears under the auspices of being hacked, leaving everyone and everything without a base or an anchor , multiple time-lines overlap, as the universe prepares for the ultimate destruction.

NEW COVENANT is another complex, detailed, multi-layered and often convoluted look at the end of the world. Not necessarily religious in concept but the M.O.G, Satan AI, and God themself, may be at odds with what the future holds. At times, the story is bewildering and confusing with the numerous characters, scenarios, possibilities and worlds. I was lost, then found, then lost again amongst the intricately detailed and info-dropping aspects of the entire story.

Dean C Moore pulls the reader into a science fiction fantasy world of mind chips, nano bites, artificial intelligence, and the growth of sentience in what would otherwise be static and unaware.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one THE MIND OF GOD

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Reviewed by Sandy

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While action-packed sci-fi/techno-thrillers set in the near future are my forte, I also stray into other genres from time to time, such as space operas, paranormal fantasy, and detective stories. All my novels can be described as action-thrillers, no matter the sub-genre.

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I live in the country where I breed bluebirds, which are endangered in these parts, as my small contribution to restoring nature’s balance. When I’m not writing, or researching my next book, I may also be found socializing with friends, or working in the garden.

If you’d like to know what compels me to write, it’s simple. I write as a force for peace. Fiction has a way of engaging our whole minds, not just our intellects, but various layers of our conscious, superconscious, and unconscious. Novels also encourage our left and right cerebral hemispheres to get in sync and, with just enough magic and wizardry, can help to transform people into more enlightened souls (the writer included) better than a hundred years of therapy or rational arguments to the same ends.

I’ve remained a lifelong student of philosophy, spirituality, psychology, science, and the arts.