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b'Bestselling author PJ Manney joins Phil and Stephen for part one of a three-part interview discussing her new novel (ID)entity.\\xa0\\n\\nIn the guise of political revolutionary Thomas Paine, bioengineer Peter Bernhardt brought down the corrupt and powerful Phoenix Club\\u2014and then turned revolution into evolution by becoming the first artificial human intelligence: Major Tom. In the two years since Major Tom revealed his digital existence and spread his freedom manifesto, he has been revered as a god and vilified as a demon. The United States and Europe have splintered into ideologically independent regions. Russia and China prepare to expand their empires.\\n\\nIn the midst of the chaos, pirates attack a seastead in the Pacific Ocean, capturing one of Major Tom\\u2019s allies. A mysterious and powerful group wages a secret war. To rescue his ally, Major Tom must first regain his own humanity and somehow save a species he no longer identifies with, and which seems determined to destroy itself.\\n\\nAbout PJ:\\n\\nPJ Manney headPJ Manney is the author of the bestselling and Philip K. Dick Award nominated (R)EVOLUTION,\\xa0 book 1 in the Phoenix Horizon series. She is a former chairperson of Humanity+, the author of \\u201cEmpathy in the Time of Technology: How Storytelling is the Key to Empathy,\\u201d and a frequent guest host and guest on podcasts including the World Transformed. PJ is a culture vulture and SF geek, and the daughter and mother of them, too. When not contemplating the future of humanity, she is a mother, wife, and education activist in California.'