My New Novel: The Jack Code

April 29, 2026May 7, 2026 / Stefan Nicholson / Leave a comment

AVAILABLE NOW on AMAZON and KINDLE

About the Book:

By 2029, the human race had lost its way. A warring consortium of billionaires using technology and politics to deplete resources and destroy the world many times over, had caused a global social and environmental disaster. Without work, people were destitute, losing all their possessions. Their mental health was suffering. Pollution and wars had rendered many places uninhabitable.

Society was rebelling with violent actions. The organised world of commerce, welfare and social cohesion had been destroyed. The Internet and social media had become useless appendages for fake information and propaganda.

Artificial Intelligence had been rapidly deployed to increase profits. However, without sufficient buyers, sales and profits had sharply declined. Those in power decided the solution was to decimate the population and to use only robotics and AI. Some billionaires wanted to control all digital devices, giving them total control over the commercial world, and sole power over a compliant population of slaves.

There was one problem . . . Leo Bensky’s AI system had secretly gone rogue and had come up with its own solution – to destroy most humans, leaving very few to do the physical work, with mindless bodies.

The overseers of the Universe knew that no human could stop this AI, and their Earth project was doomed. They sent Navix, a Universe Sentinel through a worm-hole, back to Earth, to stop the rogue AI and prevent any future conflict between humans and nature on Earth, by implanting a ‘reset patch’ into every human brain.

Navix was assigned two assistants, Jack (to design the interface), and Claire (initially in a supporting role). Jack was mentored by Navix on a remote island and trained on complex cosmic energy and computing systems. Claire was allowed to live a ‘normal’ family life, hidden from Navix until required.

This is their story . . . and maybe your future.

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The Oyster

April 1, 2026April 21, 2026 / Stefan Nicholson

The Oyster is a harmless soul who lives beneath the changing tides.

Keeping to itself it takes no sides, feeding quietly where its secret hides.

But no longer, for we say that some are ‘blessed’,

When a speck of grit fouls its silvery nest.

Our Earth is as the Oyster’s life, for commercial gain has plundered its wealth,

And we take it with greed, much more than we need, at the expense of its finite health.

And like the caged hen, whose last stolen egg ascertains it will soon be plucked,

The oyster is attacked by a feverish hand as we comically say it is ‘shucked’.

Yet, another word often springs to mind, which careless people use,

Sometimes to joke or curse or randomly say . . . and sometimes to hurl abuse.

But I will save it for our future world, which now shares a common fate.

For “The world is my oyster” as they say and yet we consume both at an extravagant rate.

Reading by Digital AMY:

(from my poetry book: “Frames of Poetry” – available Amazon, Kindle, Google Books)

Alfred’s Holiday

February 24, 2026February 24, 2026 / Stefan Nicholson / 1 Comment

Picture the tranquil scene of peace and quiet, as English tourist Alfred, goes to bed on his yacht, at a foreign marina.

At 6am in the morning, Alfred wakes up to absolute silence and closes his eyes again. Immediately there is a cacophony of loud noises.

Everyone is using power drills, saws, hammers, sanders and they are all shouting and yelling. Other boats go by, leaving waves of swell which hit his boat, splashing water all around, making the boat rock and swirl violently.

Everywhere he looks, people are laughing at him, waving their arms, jeering and shouting rude remarks in foreign languages.

Alfred has a quick look around, smiles . . . and goes below.

The sound of pots and pans, and a swirl of thick pungent smoke is noticed by all those around the boat. He secretly tosses ‘certain items’ into the water, which appear to swell up and float into the path of the oncoming boats.

A terrible smell emanates from the boat as Alfred surfaces, wearing a clothes-peg on his nose. A flag made from underwear is raised. A salute is made.

The oncoming boats suck up the Yorkshire Pudding into their intake pipes, overheating their engines. They career into other boats, knocking workmen off their ladders and ropes.

The smell alone, makes the people on their boats and on the jetty, dive or fall into the water, making workmen dizzy and sick. There is a mass exodus of cars leaving the marina.

All is quiet once more.

Alfred removes the clothes peg and smells the smouldering line of well-done English pork sausages on his skewer.

A surviving woman on a nearby boat, angrily throws a hard bread stick at him in defiance, but he casually hits it back . . . with a tennis racquet.

He calls out to her, mimicking her strange accent”

“You ‘av a nice big shiny bot”.

He then places three big, fat, charred sausages into the water, which float past her boat.

Blowing up a balloon and letting out the air slowly . . . and noisily, he calls out again:

“Theez eez from ma sheeeep!”

She faints.

He smiles.

Notes: I thought a bit of comedy would help you to remember – “Stay your ground – Make a Sound”

All my books are available on Amazon and Kindle – just search for my name. Your purchase will be greatly appreciated and enable me to write more books. My new book coming out in April will be titled “The Jack Code” a sci-fi about AI (with a bit of comedy, tragedy, love and hope).

What does AI Predict?

July 9, 2025July 9, 2025 / Stefan Nicholson

Here is a snippet from my conversation with AI tool ChatGPT, about what happens if AI is embedded in everything – and it STOPS (for any reason) for one month.

In a complex world of “black box” technology, software, AI control and self-learning systems, the risk of errors increases the chance for the global meltdown of society if it fails. Specialist engineers, programmers, AI solutions and the manufacturing of components to “fix” everything, may be beyond their ability to recover . . .