Seven years ago Earth made first
contact with an alien race - it didn’t go well - and earth took its armies into
space, sustaining heavy loss of life.
As support for the war waned the
military industrial complex created the Providence class of warship. Run by
powerful AI and a skeleton crew of four who are basically window dressing to
keep the public onside. At the launch of the Providence Five it becomes pretty
clear to the reader that these four (with one exception) shouldn't be in charge
of a lemonade stand, let alone a multi billion dollar weapon of war.
Months later the crew are deep in
uncharted space, cut off from earth communication; locked in the fight of their
lives with an enemy who seem to get smarter with every encounter and a ship
which is rejecting their commands.
(N.B Other Max Barry titles include Jennifer Government, Machine Man and Lexicon)
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