Tinman

The Tinman is a fictional sci-fi thriller that bears a warning to our relationship to new technology. Like fire, the arrival of artificial intelligence can comfort us, or burn us.
Meet Captain Russell Adam Calhoun, the last of a dying breed of old school Airline Pilots. Captain Calhoun is a cankerous old spirited soul fighting to hold on to his identity and job as artificial intelligence he refers to as the Tinman, and its collaborators he calls the Suits, arrive on scene. Add Dronies, the new ground operators to the list of his enemies and you have the essence that ignites the fires of Calhoun.
In the story Captain Calhoun forms an unusual bond with a young ground Dronie Trainee Becky, he refers to as little Red Riding Hood. She is the spark that guides him to find his own lost touch with humanity.
Together they battle to save his aircraft, himself, and maybe the world from an apocalyptic battle between the ‘Knights of the Circle, self-appointed guardians of time travel, and the Vatican crusaders called the Ancients.

The Tinman is a story that will grow on you as you experience the inner growth of Captain Calhoun in his own battle to accept himself and make peace with his past and a world that seems to be leaving him behind.

The ending will leave you in suspense. A bomb planted on board an aircraft piloted by the Tinman is headed to the Vatican City. Captain Calhoun in an attempt to take back the airship leads us on an emotional rollercoaster as he fights for control of his aircraft and his own attachments to humanity. After all Captain Calhoun summed it up best when he said; “ the Tinman was probably more human than him.”