The Starwalker is a starship with an experimental star-stepping drive. Designed to use the gravity wells of stars to fold space, she can travel between star systems faster than FTL. That is, if they can get it to work. She is run by a sophisticated AI who doesn’t always follow her programming. She has only just been born, and . . .
A serialized cyberpunk blog novel, The Know Circuit by Gary A. Ballard is the sequel to Under the Amoral Bridge. Artemis Bridge is the connection for all your illicit needs. But when his bodyguard’s grandmother goes missing in a mysterious explosion in Boulder, Colorado, Bridge is forced to ditch his self-interest to help a friend. But as they approach the . . .
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Starwalker is an engaging concept—-an AI of a computer telling the story of not only the ship, but her crew.
As a reader,I find Starwalker intriguing for two reasons: she’s a perfect omnipotent narrartor, seeing into the shadows and reading into the things that go on around (and literally inside) of [more . . .]