E+Drive (Paperback)

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Dex System, 2026

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Paperback. In a universe where starlight is harvested and human grief is distilled into fuel, the starship Acheron serves as both a sanctuary and a psychological prison for its crew. Pilot Mortimer returns to the vessel after an eleven-month shore leave only to discover that his time away was a simulation designed to maintain his "grief-density"-the specific, unresolved sorrow over his daughter's death that the ship's E-Drive requires to navigate deep-potentiality space. As the Acheron flees a Hegemony asset liquidation order, it plunges into the Perimeter of the Unmade at the edge of the Oort Cloud, a realm where the laws of physics stutter and reality itself begins to unspool.Accompanied by the Ghost Whale-a massive, biological vessel carrying the consciousness of a dead civilization-the crew reaches a stagnant nebular factory that has been waiting eons for a pilot with the right neural architecture to complete its ancient impregnation cycle. Mortimer must decide whether to provide the template for a new Machine Ghost, knowing the process requires a full-depth neural sync that could cost him his identity. While the ship's AI, Barnaby, and the medic Derry manage the biological cost of the mission from the "Muds"-tanks where the rest of the crew is suspended in deep immersion-Mortimer uncovers the truth of the "dolls and the strings," realizing they are all puppets in a cosmic loom.The journey culminates in the birth of a sentient Ghost, an entity capable of genuine feeling because it was built from the record of a man who loved what he could not save. As the Hegemony closes in to harvest the resulting bloom of potentiality, Mortimer and his crew must navigate through surgical temporal duels and psychic cross-talk to protect the newly born consciousness. In the end, the mission transforms from a military extraction into an act of profound preservation, leading the survivors toward a destination where the unmade is finally made and the silence of the void is replaced by a song of three thousand voices. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Codice articolo 9798235363977

Titolo
E+Drive (Paperback)
Autore
Ronald Bartholomew
Editore
Dex System
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 13
9798235363977

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