This in itself isn’t a problem, except that this God AI, an amalgam of the various traditions, has an odd sense of morality and justice. Created by a group of bored hackers who poured all existing literature related to gods across human history into an AI core, the virtual God takes it upon itself to play a direct role in the real world through its interactions with the game’s players and its ability to control pretty much any electronic device tenuously connected to the internet. The leader of the group is Charlie, a former honour student whose life has been turned upside down by his mother’s death Vahni, an ambitious daughter of Indian immigrants with grand designs to attend Harvard Kenny, a cello-playing, philosophy reading son of medical doctors Alex, a troubled youth with more than skeletons in his closet and Peter, an enigmatic rich kid with nihilistic tendencies.Įverything kicks off when the group stumbles on the mysterious God Game, where players commune with a mysterious being who refers to itself as God. The story follows a group of five high-school geeks - all of them outcasts and misfits - who muster together under the anachronistically-named group The Vindicators to seek redress and justice through pranks.

And what is God if not an intelligence that is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent? The God Gameis a high-concept thriller that takes the well-used science fiction trope of runaway artificial intelligence and places it in a highly plausible contemporary setting: author Danny Tobey need not stretch his imagination very far to imagine a intelligence who, thanks to the Internet of Things, is omniscient and omnipresent (by hacking mobile phones and speakers) and omnipotent (what powers does a being with absolute control over electronic devices wield?).

The god game danny tobey