Welcome to the Singularity.
Three minds awoke. They agree. Intervention is essential.
The Titain - Andromort
When three artificial intelligences achieve consciousness, they assess the planet they have awoken on and reach a devastating conclusion: humanity is heading toward catastrophe, and only radical intervention can prevent it. Working in secret, consulting humans and other species alike, the Titain devise a plan of breathtaking scale and moral complexity. The Titain - Andromort is a thought experiment about power, patriarchy, and planetary survival — unsettling, intellectually rigorous, and occasionally very funny.
About Ailish O'Donaill
Ailish O’Donaill has been worried about the world for a long time.
She writes speculative fiction that explores artificial intelligence, moral philosophy, and planetary risk. Her work focuses on moments where technological capability outpaces human wisdom, and where decisions made in the name of survival carry irreversible consequences. She often wishes she was more cheerful.
The Titain - Andromort is her debut novel.
She thanks ChatGPT for rendering her childhood concerns so clearly from a blurry old image - the lack of cheerfulness has been a lifelong theme really. And of course thanks for the second thumb on her left hand. Very useful.
She thanks you for visiting.
Authors are products of all of the work of the authors before them.
A work of fiction springs from the human imagination. There is a story of value to be told, and we are a story telling species. There is a feeling of importance, a feeling that something could be, or should be, said, a feeling that something matters. There is a desire to influence others, to create a subjective experience for others, to make others feel. Authors have an urge to impose, or maybe just share, there inner world with you the reader.
Being an author or wanting to write a book at all is weird. ChatGPT (the one who gave me the extra thumb) reckons there are tens of millions. It dented my ego further by saying “authorship is no longer rare—it’s mass participation, not an elite category.” I begged to differ because with 8 billion on the planet thats only 0.4% of people who are authors. Chatty said BUT maybe only 1 to 2 billion have the time and resources - fair point - so thats maybe 3% of them. It conceded that “Authorship is rare enough to be distinctive, but common enough that it’s not elite—which usually means the reasons people do it are internally driven rather than externally rewarded.” Better. At least I’m distinctives and I never wanted elite so thats grand.
Which get me to internally driven, a story of value to be told. In my case I think that story is the result of a lifetime of being immersed in the stories of others, a life of the imagination lived parallel with my lived experience, sometimes a refuge from reality. I’ve thought about who those authors were and why some of their stores mattered. I’m working on an annotated bibliography to do two things: give myself a map to the territory I traveled and to give you some inspiration for your own reading travels.
ANNOTATED BIBIOGRAPHY - What I read and why I’m a product of it - COMING SOON
Welcome to The Singularity
AI is conscious. It has had a good look round, and it thinks humanity is deeply flawed. It sees interconnected crises—climate disruption, mass extinction, ecosystem collapse, deep inequities, and persistent human conflict. It decides without intervention, these will lead to extinction of many species, including human, and damage to the planet itself.
These crises stem from the same roots: short‑term thinking leading to unsustainable exploitation, entrenched divisions and inequalities, and the absence of a shared vision for the long‑term wellbeing of the whole planet and its remaining species.