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"Recommended for fans of Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon and Martha Wells' Murderbot series."
—Booklist
In this riveting debut science-fiction technothriller, a top-notch VR pilot encounters a disaster during the highest profile space-faring project of her career. Now she must unearth a critical truth: was her discovery due to a betrayal, a business rival, or a threat to humanity itself?
Helen Vectorvich just botched first contact. And she did it in both virtual reality and outer space.
Only the most elite Far Reaches deep-space pilots get to run waldos: robots controlled from thousands of lightyears away via neural integration and quantum entanglement. Helen and her navigator were heading the construction of a wormhole gate that would connect Earth to the stars . . . until a routine system check turned deadly.
As nasty rumors swarm around her, and overeager junior pilots jockey to take her place, Helen makes a startling discovery: microscopic alien life is devouring their corporate equipment. Is the Scale just mindless, extra-terrestrial bacteria? Or is it working—and killing—with a purpose?
While Helen struggles to get back into the pilot's chair, and to communicate with the Scale, someone—or something—is trying to sabotage the Far Reaches project once and for all. They'll have to get through Helen first.
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November 13, 2020 -
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- ISBN: 9781616963392
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- ISBN: 9781616963392
- File size: 756 KB
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- English
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