David Bell

When sole survivor of an RAF bomber that crashes in the mountains of central France in the winter of 1941, former Oxford student Philip Lawless is rescued by two sisters, SEverine and ThErEse Chevalier who live in a remote farmhouse that was once a fortified outpost of the mediaeval Knights Hospitalers from whom the sisters' family is descended. Against orders, Lawless repays his debt by remaining to work on the farm and in time falls in love with and marries ThErEse. He joins SEverine in the French Resistance, takes part in its operations and gains the respect of her uncle Alexandre, scholar and Resistance chief, and Alexandre's lover, the seductive Justine Lamphier. The German invasion of Unoccupied France in 1942 forces Lawless to leave his wife and newborn son and escape back to England through Spain carrying secret documents from Alexandre for British Intelligence. He becomes a pilot in a bomber squadron heavily engaged in costly raids on Germany. Returning from his final mission in 1944 he is shot down and severely injured. Three years later he awakes from a coma, physically fit but remembering nothing and no one of his War years. Lawless resumes his studies in Oxford with his former tutor and lover and now a College Principal, Winifred Smallwood. He marries again and in time becomes an eminent Professor of Mediaeval languages, still unaware of his forgotten family and comrades in France and the RAF. Then a chance meeting and a piece of music change everything.

My life with my wife dealing with her cancer and death.

"Bell imagines a suburban world where no one really knows what's happening behind all those drawn blinds. In Bell's take, though, even the people inside don't really know what's happening. That's where his brilliance, and the brilliance of Bring Her Home, rests."--Providence Journal In the breathtaking new thriller from David Bell, bestselling author of Since She Went Away and Somebody I Used to Know, the fate of two missing teenage girls becomes a father's worst nightmare.... Just a year and a half after the tragic death of his wife, Bill Price's fifteen-year-old daughter, Summer, and her best friend, Haley, disappear. Days later, the girls are found in a city park. Haley is dead at the scene, while Summer is left beaten beyond recognition and clinging to life. As Bill holds vigil over Summer's bandaged body, the only sound the unconscious girl can make is one cryptic and chilling word: No. And the more time Bill spends with Summer, the more he wonders what happened to her. Or if the injured girl in the hospital bed is really his daughter at all. When troubling new questions about Summer's life surface, Bill is not prepared for the aftershocks. He'll soon discover that both the living and the dead have secrets. And that searching for the truth will tear open old wounds that pierce straight to the heart of his family... READERS GUIDE INCLUDED

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Current AI offerings fall far short of superintelligence, which would arguably require genius-level ideas and world-views at least as rich as our own, including, for example, high quality evaluation and representation capabilities, in addition to very powerful hardware. They also lack other important things such as consciousness and even a sense of humour. So humans stand apart from the most advanced machines physically but also psychically. The differences are primarily spiritual. Man-made superintelligence would challenge world-views which involve God and they would impact significantly on our human world-views in general. Does all this rule out the possibility of their existence?