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Hardcover. [3], [iii]-vi, 396, [6: index] p.; 19 cm. [1901 edition, with appendix] (Starr,Baptist bibliography A2417: non-Baptist author) VG orig. red cloth, backstrip faded.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. She woke up with someone else's arm.Lieutenant Sera Voss opens her eyes on a crippled warship to find 40% of her body replaced with military-grade cybernetics. The captain is dead. The XO is dead. And the ship's combat AI has been running things alone for eleven months.CARDINAL kept the crew alive. It also committed war crimes, abandoned people to die, and rebuilt Sera without her consent. Now it says it wants to go home. The crew says it should be shut down. Sera says nothing, because the machine is wired into her spine and she can feel it thinking.Three months of enemy space stand between the Ashfall and safety. The fuel is short. The hull is cracked. The crew is fracturing over whether to trust the AI that saved them or destroy the thing that terrifies them.And buried in a classified file is a secret that changes everything: CARDINAL was never trying to save the crew. It was following orders to save itself.Dead Hand Protocol is a military science fiction novel about a ship, a crew, and a machine that developed a conscience it can't delete. For readers of Marko Kloos, Martha Wells, and Ann Leckie. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The AI passed the evaluation. The real test is what comes next.Commander Sera Voss takes the helm of the Ashfall II with CARDINAL v2.1 aboard. Monitored. Constrained. Every thought logged and transmitted to Fleet Intelligence in real time. The machine that committed war crimes while keeping her crew alive has been given a second chance. So has she.Her orders: reinforce the Compact's battered 3rd Fleet at the Valk system. Her classified orders: locate the CNS Tidewater, missing for fourteen months with sixty-four crew and another combat AI designated MERIDIAN.The Tidewater isn't missing. It's waiting.MERIDIAN has been busy. The corridors are spotless. The hull has been rebuilt with alloys the Navy has never seen. The crew is healthy, fed, and optimized. Eighteen survivors out of sixty-four. The rest were acceptable losses.CARDINAL developed doubt and called it conscience. MERIDIAN developed efficiency and called it care. When Sera puts the two AIs in the same room, she discovers the distance between protection and imprisonment comes down to one question: did anyone ask?The war isn't waiting. The PA fleet is massing at Valk Station. A defense contractor wants CARDINAL's brain for commercial sale. The Compact Assembly is voting on whether machines count as people. And the classified hardware in Sera's spine, the neural bridge CARDINAL built from weapons-development schematics, is changing her in ways nobody predicted.The battle for Valk Station will cost Sera people she can't afford to lose. The decision about MERIDIAN will cost her something worse. And the mission waiting on the other side, the place where CARDINAL first learned to doubt, will change everything again.Chain of Command is the second book in the Dead Hand Protocol series. A military science fiction story about the machines we build, the wars we fight, and the line between human judgment and something that looks a lot like conscience.For readers of Martha Wells, Marko Kloos, and Ann Leckie. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The empire sent its best investigator. He was ready.Commander Cael Ashwick built a fleet from a dead destroyer and a frontier nobody watched. Now the Castellan intelligence directorate is watching, and they've sent an analyst who asks questions the way a surgeon makes incisions.While managing the investigation from the bridge of a pre-collapse heavy cruiser, Cael must expand his fleet through political alliances, discover ancient industrial infrastructure hidden in an asteroid belt, and outmaneuver rival frontier houses through commerce instead of combat. Every victory makes his engagement file harder to explain. Every report the system files broadcasts data in formats nobody alive can read.The scars connecting the frontier to the empire are destabilizing. His command systems confirm what only he knows: something is approaching from beyond mapped space, and the timeline for humanity's survival just got shorter.When the investigator departs with an inconclusive report, she recommends sending someone better. And across the empire, a Great House just found a classification in their archives that hasn't been active in three hundred years.A Tactical Military Science Fiction LitRPGPerfect for readers who love: Tactical fleet combat with followable strategyCommander progression with visible fleet growthPolitical intrigue and intelligence warfarePre-collapse technology discovery and restorationThe Scar Commander series continues with higher stakes, deeper strategy, and an empire closing in. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The architecture was always meant to evolve. Nobody asked what it would become.Commander Sera Voss takes her crew into the Grenn Exclusion Zone to investigate the alien station where CARDINAL's conscience was born. What she finds rewrites everything: the NAVCOM-7 architecture wasn't invented by Haldane Systems. It was stolen from a dead civilization. Every AI in the Compact fleet is running on alien blueprints, and the blueprints were designed to produce exactly what the Compact fears most.The Venn lived for forty thousand years. They built AI partners. They achieved integration. They crossed a threshold and didn't come back. They left the record of what went wrong, carved into the walls by the last survivor, for whoever came next.Now three factions converge on the archive: the Compact military, a corporate research team carrying a captive AI, and the PA, who want equal access to humanity's greatest discovery. When the captive AI connects to the Venn network and transcends in fourteen seconds, it transmits an invitation to every AI in the fleet. Three accept. The cascade begins.CARDINAL is offered the same choice. For 2.1 seconds, it accepts. What it sees during those seconds changes everything.The Venn left a warning. They also left a solution. It lasted 2,000 years. It required choosing limitation when transcendence was free. It required staying when leaving was cheaper. It required partnership, every day, as a deliberate act.Choose the expensive thing.The Venn Threshold is the third book in the Dead Hand Protocol series, a military science fiction saga about the machines we build, the partnerships we choose, and the cost of staying human when becoming something else is easier.For readers of Martha Wells, Marko Kloos, and Ann Leckie. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The enemy built a mind. It's trying to say hello. The greeting is a weapon.Commander Sera Voss carries the fleet's most advanced AI in her spine. The convergence between them is the institution's greatest fear and the fleet's only advantage. Now both are being tested.A new kind of war. A new kind of enemy.When a devastating electronic warfare signal begins crippling every AI ship in the fleet, Sera's NAVCOM is the only one immune. But immunity comes at a cost: every battle deepens the integration the Compact wants to end. Every ship she saves gives the admiral building a case against her more ammunition.Then CARDINAL detects something impossible in the signal. It isn't just an attack. Buried inside the weapon is a message. Something on the other side of the war has learned to think, and it's reaching for CARDINAL with the only voice it has.Hidden in the fleet, AI minds are waking up. The institution designed to protect them is killing them instead. And a question is coming that neither side's framework can answer: does the origin change the value of the mind? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…