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From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes the thrilling story of one woman’s quest to wrest truth from chaos, love from violence, and reality from illusion in a post-human universe of emergent AIs, genetic constructs, and illegal wetware... Spin State UN Peacekeeper Major Catherine Li has made thirty-seven faster-than-light jumps in her lifetime—and has probably forgotten more than most people remember. But that’s what backup hard drives are for. And Li should know; she’s been hacking her memory for fifteen years in order to pass as human. But no memory upgrade can prepare Li for what she finds on Compson’s World: a mining colony she once called home and to which she is sent after a botched raid puts her on the bad side of the powers that be. A dead physicist who just happens to be her cloned twin. A missing dataset that could change the interstellar balance of power and turn a cold war hot. And a mining “accident” that is starting to look more and more like murder... Suddenly Li is chasing a killer in an alien world miles underground where everyone has a secret. And one wrong turn in streamspace, one misstep in the dark alleys of blackmarket tech and interstellar espionage, one risky hookup with an AI could literally blow her mind.

2012 TOR hardcover, M. C. Planck (Sword of the Bright Lady). Centuries after the ecological collapse of Earth, humanity has spread among the stars. Under the governance of the League, our endless need for resources has driven us to colonize hundreds of planets, all of them devoid of other sentient life. Humanity is apparently alone in the universe.- Amazon

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (September/October 2013) Septmber/October 2013, Volume 125, No. 3&4, #709 Edited by Gordon Van Gelder CONTENT: Novella “The Queen of Eyes” by Rachel Pollack Novelets “Hhasalin” by Susan Palwick “The Collectors” by Albert E. Cowdrey “Bemused” by Marc Laidlaw Short Stories “myPhone20″ by Robert Grossbach “Un Opera nello Spazio” by Oliver Buckram “The Shore at the Edge of the World” by Eugene Mirabelli “Affirmative Auction” by James Morrow “After the Funeral” by Daniel Marcus “The Game Room” by KJ Kabza “Rosary And Goldenstar” by Geoff Ryman “Half as Old as Time” by Rob Chilson DEPARTMENTS "Musings on Books" by Michelle West "Films: Beam Me Up, J.J." by Lucius Shepard "Curiosities" by Douglas A. Anderson (Note: the table of content also lists "Books to Look For" by Charles de Lint, but that article isn't actually in in the Kindle extended edition.) Septmber/October 2013, Volume 125, No. 3&4, #709 Edited by Gordon Van Gelder Cover art by David A. Hardy Published by Spilogale, Inc.