Neogenesis Neogenesis
Liaden Universe

Neogenesis

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Publisher Description

Menace from Back Space Looming out of the Dust of Time


The Complex Logic Laws were the result of a war waged hundreds of years in the past, when two human powers threw massive AI navies at each other and nearly annihilated themselves. Being human, they blamed their tools for this near miss; they destroyed what was left of the sentient ships, and made it illegal to be, manufacture, or shelter an independent logic.


Strangely, however, the Free Ships and other AIs did not turn themselves in or suicide, they merely became wary of humans, and stayed under their scans. A clandestine support network grew up, including hidden yards where smart ships were manufactured, and mentors--humans specially trained to ease a new intelligence into the universe--socialized them, and taught them what they needed to know to survive.


Among those with a stake in the freedom of Independent Logics is Theo Waitley, who is somewhat too famously the captain of intelligent ship Bechimo. Theo's brother, Val Con yos'Phelium, presides over a household that has for a generation employed an AI butler. Recently, he approved the "birth" of the butler's child, who was sent, with human mentor Tolly Jones, to rescue or destroy an orphaned AI abandoned at a remote space station.


Then there's Uncle, the shadowy mastermind from the Old Universe, whose many projects often skirt the boundaries of law, both natural and man-made – and the puppet-masters at the Lyre Institute, whose history is just as murky – and a good deal less honorable.


All have an interest in the newly-awakening Self-Aware Logic that is rumored to have the power to destroy universes.


The question is: Who will get to it first?


At the publisher’s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2018
January 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
448
Pages
PUBLISHER
Baen Books
SELLER
Baen Publishing Enterprises
SIZE
1.1
MB

Customer Reviews

Michael Petit ,

Neogenesis

A wonderful story in a rich, deep and compelling series. I think of it as Jane Austen in Space, with masterfully interwoven storylines, beautifully realized environments, exciting action and characters as fully formed and real as any you'll encounter in fiction. I am happy to be in the observer's seat anytime that Sharon and Steve want to take 1st and 2nd pilot's chair and lift off.

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