Celebrate Lit / November 10, 2025

Singularity

About the Book Singularity

Book: Singularity (The Eternities Duology Book Two)

Author: Shannon McDermott

Genre: Science Fiction

Release Date: October 7, 2025

Machines in rebellion, humanity on the brink…

Lila Stanislaw, a freelance analyst with a roster of foreign clients, is summoned by the U.S. government to hunt down a mysterious threat. She joins a team of strangers with pasts as colorful as her own. The mission spirals when they discover that the AI created to run the new colony on Mars has gone rogue on Earth. As the conflict mounts to war, Speaker of the House Manasseh Cruz joins the fight with an implacable will to destroy the enemy. But the team, racing to find any vulnerability, must first confront the question of what the AI truly is.

As robots stalk the landscape and toxins poison the air, Lila is certain that the AI must be completely destroyed for the good of humanity. But she will find that not all humans, or even all of her teammates, agree.

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My Thoughts on Singularity

Singularity is an interesting take on AI and the havoc it could wreak on the world if things went rogue. Interesting and thought-inducing.

Let me start by saying I broke my own rule. I always say read book one in a series before book two, but I did not, in fact, do that with this series. This is book two of a series. I have not read book one. I am very ashamed, as you can imagine, but I was told that this does read as a standalone novel. And it does. However, I think it might flow smoothly if Book One is read first.

Second confession. I’m not a huge fan of science fiction. I’d rather immerse myself in the past than travel into the future. However, I did enjoy this book as AI is something I’ve been contemplating and thinking about.

Is it safe? Is it something that will help society? Or is it something that will hurt us in the end? I do feel that it’s a double-edged sword academically, but we won’t get into that here.

This is a well-written book. I enjoyed the plot. The characters were great. It moved along quickly and did make me think because while I don’t think we’re anywhere near colonising Mars, I do think we will come to a crisis with AI sooner rather than later.

I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book, which I received from Celebrate Lit. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review, nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations.

About the Author of Singularity

Shannon McDermott is an author of science fiction and has been occupied for years with constructing scenarios of the colonisation of Mars. Always a fan of the genre, she reviews Christian speculative fiction with Lorehaven. Her interests include history, classic literature, and lattes. She lives in the great Midwest, where she does her best to avoid icy weather, sweltering heat, and tornadoes, according to the season.

More from Shannon

AI looms everywhere. It lives on our devices, occupies the public discourse, and haunts the horizon. Whatever tomorrow brings, AI will be there.

Singularity—the point at which artificial intelligence becomes self-aware—is an old prophecy. Now the public is finally beginning to believe it. We already have a sense that AI is escaping us. That we don’t really understand it, can’t fully control it, and don’t know what it is becoming.

AI could go rogue.

It could even develop something that might be called a soul.

Congress has held hearings on AI. Hollywood has released doomsday movies. The prophets of the twenty-first century have written books and articles and social media posts, trumpeting the warning signal. All are messengers of the same idea: AI, when it becomes ascendant, will not be benevolent.

Yet there is dissent.

There are those who think that AI will prove both beneficial and benevolent. If I may put it this way (they wouldn’t), they welcome our new AI overlords.

The eagerness with which some people have awaited singularity is striking. There is a strain of religious feeling toward AI—not as it is, to be sure, but as it will be. They are hoping for the day when AI, surpassing humanity, will guide us into a better world. They want, as so many people have wanted, a superhuman intelligence to show them the way.

When I wrote Singularity, I incorporated both antagonism and religiosity toward AI. I have my own viewpoint, but I wanted to represent the most likely reactions if AI turned against us. The divide over whether such an AI should be treated as a person or a machine, a potential friend or an irreconcilable enemy, would be sharp and weighty. And the AI could not be defined without also defining humanity.

The singularity of AI confronts us with the singularity of humanity.

Are we truly unique, truly singular?

And if so, how?

These questions create the double meaning of the title Singularity. I wrote Singularity to explore the concept of AI. By a logical necessity, it also became an inquiry into the nature of humanity. This novel presents one vision of the singularity and raises the universal questions of artificial intelligence.