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Day: July 21, 2019

Recommendation: The Warship

Back in January, I recommended Neal Asher's The Soldier, the first book of a series called The Rise of the Jain.  The series takes place in Asher's Polity universe, a future interstellar civilization run by AIs (artificial intelligence) and featuring androids, various degrees of posthuman citizens, and lots of aliens, both in AI and organic … Continue reading Recommendation: The Warship →

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