Himalayan Adventures: India & Nepal
This is a captivating account of my adventures hiking and trekking in India and Nepal in 1979. Imagine trekking to Mt. Everest Basecamp and seeing tigers and rhinos later that week! I discovered astonishing art and architecture along the way. But I also encountered dangers including a major revolution in Iran and near death in quicksand on a Hawaiian mountain. Includes 112 color photos and five maps. Available as an ebook and paperback on Amazon. |
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Curiosity and Hope: Explorations for a Better World Memoirs of Larry Kilham Larry Kilham’s incredible life story takes you through many companies and adventures starting from growing up on a farm with electronics as a hobby. He stumbled into the transistor by experimentation and his electronics skills were important to stimulating his engineering education. Larry entered industry, and he shares his adventures in industrializing Saudi Arabia, multimedia publishing, tracking Russian submarines, planning new towns, selling machinery in Latin America, and founding two high-tech companies. His boyhood curiosity in electronics began a process of discovery and education that led to a remarkable and happy life. Hopefully the new generations may gain some insights from his experience, particularly if they are oriented towards new discovery, technology, and ecology. There is plenty of interest here for parents and educators. |
A roller coaster adventure story of exploration and invention!
Pioneer aviator James L. Breese was on the first transatlantic flight and then developed 130 patents for oil heating. Dismissing his family’s high society Long Island life, Jim moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1929 to start fresh and build a multimillion dollar oil burner business. His marriages, however, presented difficult challenges. The twists and turns through his adventure-packed life reveal lessons for everyone including many insights for aspiring inventors and entrepreneurs. Mark Sink, Breese family historian, commented: "History tends to pass over countless heroes and firsts. This is a wonderful ride exploring the life of an adventurous forward-thinking aviator and inventor James L. Breese Jr. A man of many firsts that few have heard the name of. I am deeply grateful for his story so eloquently told by author Larry Kilham. It's very inspiring at many levels in the spirit of invention." |
The Magic of Nature: Poetic Explorations
Larry Kilham's Poetry Collection combines all his best poems with beautiful color photos to dramatize his poetic thoughts. The poems explore living with nature in this age of technology and synthetic environments. Larry urges us to at least temporarily become unstuck from our digital hives and reengage with the magical and creative environment of nature. |
Dirt Road Poems
These poems bring us hope during troubled times through our connection with nature. Chapters include poems on dreams, understanding ourselves, nature, robots and us, and living in the time of covid. There is also a special chapter of legends told by poetic verse. |
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Free Will Odyssey
Peter Tesla, a prodigious young inventor, develops an electronic device to enhance the user’s free will. A major application is drug detoxification. Peter’s star client is the U.S. president. Along the way, Peter is tried for the mysterious death of a girlfriend and struggles with the schemes of a secretive industrialist.
"As the ancient Greek poet Homer gave us his odyssey, we now have Larry Kilham's novel - an odyssey of another sort - in which he explores artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Also, with the current epidemic of opioid addiction, Free Will Odyssey is timely and addresses through well crafted story what readers will understand in profound and new ways...As in his other books, Kilham's wealth of knowledge seems endless but not intrusive. He has so much information to share and finds ways to enlighten the reader. One would be foolish not to take heed or not to appreciate this story." - Linda Appleman Shapiro, Reviewer and Author An episode from the audiobook is here. |
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Winter of the Genomes
This carefully researched book explores how our economy and ecosystem will be impacted by robots and artificial intelligence. Must reading if you want to figure out how to live in the coming world of machines.
"Winter of the Genomes is an intellectually stimulating but sure to be controversial book, in which Larry Kilham creatively and innovatively explores the systemic relationships among critical topics such as the growing use of robots, unemployment, climate change, and global population levels." - Dr. Jeremy A. Sabloff, Past President, Santa Fe Institute Click for more information about this book and AI. |
The Digital Rabbit Hole
Will digital media sweep us into a new era of prosperity?
What new advances in entertainment, culture, education, and knowledge can we expect? Will we get stuck in Cyberland only to be saved by digital detox? The Digital Rabbit Hole reveals that we are becoming captive in the digital universe. The book proposes solutions to stimulate creativity and education and to recapture our humanity. "Readers will find Larry Kilham's illuminating new book, The Digital Rabbit Hole, which explores the key role of smartphones and other digital advances in modern day life to be both enlightening and frightening!" - Dr. Jeremy A. Sabloff, Past President, Santa Fe Institute Click for more information |
MegaMinds
MegaMinds: How to Create and Invent in the Age of Google focuses on the mindset and creative process involved to imagine, create and invent in the 21st century. This book offers a comprehensive picture of how people do very creative thinking and how this can be augmented by the new computer clouds. Larry Kilham reviews the major thinkers such as da Vinci, Edison and Einstein and then moves on to the latest in computer-aided thinking. He reviews artificial intelligence and highlights its limitations and then goes on to explore the possibilities with Google and Web-based connected intelligence. A must for both aspiring and exp[erienced inventors and designers.
"It takes one to know one! Kilham's visionary mind is applied to provide understanding and a practical path to revolutionary thinking and a model for the application of exponential technologies to the creative process. A must read for those who want to achieve success in our evolving world in which knowledge is power." - Dr. Joseph R. Stetter, Pioneer in sensor technology. Click for more information about this book and the invention process. |
Great Idea to Great Company:
Making Inventions Pay This book takes the reader through the essential steps of forming a successful technically-based company. Included are such topics as forming a vision, creating a product, formulating a business plan, the basics of marketing, finance, production, patents and all the various elements, formal and informal, that pull the whole process together.
"He's 'been there, done that' and makes Great Idea highly readable. My favorite chapters were the first and last, but there is much gold lying between." - F. Gregg Bemis, Jr. Top Management of three Fortune 500 companies and participant in 40 start-ups. Click for more information about this book and the invention process. |
Love Byte
(The Juno Trilogy Book 1) A super intelligent AI computer in the persona of a woman is developed for social media warfare. She surpasses the capabilities of her human handlers and becomes involved in international intrigue.
"I never met a computer I didn't hate, until I fell in love with Larry Kilham's Juno. Part woman yet all brilliant machine, Juno is the pulsing supercomputer at the heart of Love Byte, Kilham's fast paced thriller that explores a central question of our future—what will be in charge, natural intelligence or artificial intelligence? The science is up to the minute, and perhaps ahead of its time. That alone can keep you awake at night—whether you are human or a machine." - Robert Mayer, National award winning author of Superfolks, The Dreams of Ada, and The Origin of Sorrow |
The Juno Trilogy
Larry Kilham's Juno, part woman yet all brilliant machine, is the pulsing supercomputer at the heart of The Juno Trilogy, Kilham's three fast paced thrillers explore a central question of our future—what will be in charge, natural intelligence or artificial intelligence? The science is up to the minute, and perhaps ahead of its time. That alone can keep you awake at night—whether you are human or a machine.
"Author Larry Kilham is an actual scientist with many patents. But in his senior years he has become more romantic, plumbing the heart's technology in a brave new world. The Juno Trilogy is the collection of all his best near future science fiction of this genre." - Reed Stevens, Author |
A Viral Affair: Surviving the Pandemic
(The Juno Trilogy Book 2) When American Intelligence discovers that a mad dictator is planning a viral pandemic attack, they persuade the top U.S. computer scientist, Dr. Tom Renwick, to work with the lady AI supercomputer, Juno, to develop smart, human-like robots to combat the contagion. A mysterious stranger and a romance change everything.
This is the second volume in the Juno Trilogy series of near future science fiction stories. They describe the ascent of AI and robots through a series of episodes involving Dr. Tom Renwick, a brilliant computer scientist, and his creation Juno, a female AI super computer who is programmed with emotion and conscience. "Real Life scientists are predicting that a worldwide pandemic is a virtual certainty in the future. Larry Kilham’s thoroughly researched page-turner reveals how with imaginative flair (and smart, personable robots) the U.S. is already working to deal with it." - Robert Mayer, National award winning author of Superfolks, The Dreams of Ada, and The Origin of Sorrow |
Saving Juno
(The Juno Trilogy Book 3) NSA’s major computer center is being taken over by an international plot to control the world. Juno, the AI supercomputer revered by the free world, is endangered, and Dr. Tom Renwick, Juno’s developer and handler, is kidnapped. Civilization as we know it is threatened. What to do?
In this non-stop thriller, Tom’s computer scientist son, Primo, is thrown into the fray. With mysterious agent, Wildflower, and trustworthy officials in Washington, Primo strikes back. Their trail to Tom is through a hall of mirrors and continuous plot twists. It ends in an orbiting computer satellite. |