Dale Abbot wakes from hibernation thinking it is going to be just another long, lonely shift on his Advanced Exploration Mission. And then it happens. He finds himself trapped in a physical and psychological struggle with a newly emergent consciousness that has the potential...
Isolation is hard.Dale Abbot is about to find outit can get even harder.Alone aboard his deep-space vessel, Dale Abbot must let go of everything that remains of his burned-out hazeof a life to help a newly-emergedAI consciousness.David Edward Wagner, a masterful storyteller with...