Author: Tony Ballantyne Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science fiction
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ISBNs: 9780553589283 0553589288 |
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It is the twenty-third century. Herb, a young entrepreneur, returns to the isolated planet on which he has illegally been trying to build a city'and finds it destroyed by a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Worse, the all-seeing Environment Agency has been watching him the entire time. His punishment? A nearly hopeless battle in the farthest reaches of the universe against enemy machines twice as fast, and twice as deadly, as his own'in the company of a disarmingly confident AI who may not be exactly what he claims'¦ Little does Herb know that this war of machines was set in motion nearly two hundred years ago'by mankind itself. For it was then that a not-quite-chance encounter brought a confused young girl and a nearly omnipotent AI together in one fateful moment that may have changed the course of humanity forever. From the Paperback edition.
This book is part of the "AI Trilogy" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Divergence" First published in 2007 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Capacity" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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