Overview
The last thing the ship's crew needs is an AI deciding who—or what—is human. Peter Watts (The Freeze Frame Revolution) delivers a taut, new science fiction thriller that puts humanity face to face with what comes next.“Peter Watts: Never cheerful. Always brilliant.”
—John Scalzi, author of the Old Man’s War series
It’s been over sixty-five million years since the Eriophora has encountered another ship from Earth.
Eriophora is one of a handful of converted asteroids building jump gates for a glorious human diaspora that never materialized. The crew were genetically optimized for lives passed in an eternity in stasis. But for a few precious moments every millennium or two, the Chimp--the ship’s intentionally underpowered AI—encounters a problem it can’t handle on its own.
After thwarting a mutiny against Chimp, Viktor Heinwald is awakened to find the fellow wormhole-builder Araneus right in their path, derelict and impossibly off-course. Even more impossibly, there’s a monstrous survivor.
For millennia, strange lifeforms emerged from the wormholes and chased the Eriophora after a build. Now one’s finally caught up and has convinced the Chimp it’s human.
There’s a gremlin on board.
