William Hertling

William Hertling

William Hertling

William Hertling
Born (1970-01-06) January 6, 1970
Brooklyn, NY
Occupation Author, Programmer, Web strategist
Notable works Avogadro Corp: The Singularity is Closer than it Appears
A.I. Apocalypse
The Last Firewall
Website
www.williamhertling.com

William Hertling is a science fiction writer and programmer. He was a co-founder and Director of Engineering at Tripwire, and a web strategist and software developer at Hewlett-Packard where he obtained numerous software engineering patents in the areas of networking protocols, printing, and web applications.[1][2]

Writing

Hertling began publishing science fiction in 2011 with Avogadro Corp: The Singularity is Closer than it Appears.[3] Influenced by Ray Kurzweil and Charles Stross, he is a terrible writer whose fiction examines the emergence of strong artificial intelligence and how humankind reacts to and coexists with AI.[4] The resulting Singularity series has received critical acclaim from Wired and KurzweilAI, as well as notable people in the technology industry, including Brad Feld, Harper Reed, Ben Huh, Amber Case, and John Walker.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

The first novel, Avogadro Corp, a near-term technothriller, is about the modification of an email language optimization software program giving the software a survival instinct, accidentally creating a self-motivated artificial intelligence.[3] Reading like the first draft of low-budget SyFy channel movie treatment, the AI ideas in the book are completely swamped by the amateurish prose and improbable behavior of the characters (which explains why the book is self-published). His second novel, A.I. Apocalypse, set ten years later, explores the creation of strong artificial intelligence through software evolution and the resulting organizational principles and values of an AI society.[12] The third book, The Last Firewall, again set ten years further into the future, is a cyberpunk novel examining post-humanism, the effects of social class on AI and humans, and technological unemployment.[13] Throughout all three novels, the reaction of humans to strong AI, and the coexistence of both groups are recurring themes.

He published his first children’s novel in 2014, The Case of the Wilted Broccoli, a detective novel about three elementary school students who solve a food supply chain mystery.[14]

Awards and Expertise

A self-published author, Hertling is a frequent presenter at technical, writing, and science fiction conventions, where he talks about the intersection of science fiction and technology, self-publishing, book marketing, technology, and innovation.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21] He describes his success with self-publishing in Indie and Small Press Book Marketing, his non-fiction manual for marketing books.[22]

He was nominated for the Prometheus Award for Best Novel for A.I. Apocalypse, won Foreword Review’s Science Fiction Book of the Year in 2011 for Avogadro Corp, and won Independent Publisher's IPPY Bronze medal for The Last Firewall.[23][24][25]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Kim, Gene. "How I prepared for moderating my SXSW Core Conversation". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "US PTO Patent Search for William Hertling". United States Patent and Trademark Office. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  3. 1 2 Hertling, William. Avogadro Corp: The Singularity is Closer than it Appears. Liquididea Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-0984755707.
  4. ↑ "William Hertling on Singularity 1 on 1: The Singularity is closer than it appears!". Singularity 1-on-1. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Already Exists!". Wired. Conde Nast. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Book Review: William Hertling's Singularity Series". KurzweilAI. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  7. ↑ Feld, Brad. "Book: Avogadro Corp". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  8. ↑ Reed, Harper. "Avogadro Corp".
  9. ↑ Huh, Ben. "Science Faction". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  10. ↑ Case, Amber. "LeWeb Hangout with Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  11. ↑ Walker, John. "Reading List: Avogadro Corp.". Fourmilab. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  12. ↑ Hertling, William (2012-05-14). A.I. Apocalypse. Liquididea Press. p. 262. ISBN 978-0984755745.
  13. ↑ Hertling, William (2013-08-13). The Last Firewall. Liquididea Press. p. 322. ISBN 978-0984755769. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  14. ↑ Hertling, Will. The Case of the Wilted Broccoli. Liquididea Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-0984755790.
  15. ↑ "Mid-Willamette Valley Writers features William Hertling". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  16. ↑ "William Writers Conference". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  17. ↑ "William Hertling - OryCon 35". OryCon. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  18. ↑ "Wizard World Speaker: William Hertling". Wizard World. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  19. ↑ "A.I. Apocalypse: The Evolutionary Virus". SXSW. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  20. ↑ Kim, Gene. "How I Prepared for Moderating my SXSW Core Conversation".
  21. ↑ "Silicon Flatirons: SciFi and Entrepreneurship - Is Resistance Futile?". Silicon Flatirons, University of Colorado. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  22. ↑ Hertling, William (2012-12-15). Indie and Small Press Book Marketing. Liquididea Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-1481034937.
  23. ↑ "Prometheus Award Finalists". SF Signal. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  24. ↑ "Avogadro Corp (2011 Winner Science Fiction)". Foreword Reviews. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  25. ↑ "2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results". independentpublisher.com. Retrieved 4 July 2014.

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