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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 . . .
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A communications specialist in the year 2185 is marooned in deep space by his ship’s assistant (a transgenic fish/humanoid). Stranded just outside the horizon of a supermassive black hole, he begins to send messages back to record his actions and observations. A radio astronomer in present-day Antarctica is listening. Something terrible is about to happen. . . .
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I’ve been reading Starwalker in short bursts and have completed the first story arc, the mystery of the first starstep, and why it failed so spectacularly. Starwalker begins as the rebooted ship AI is brought online in a shipyard for her second attempt.
Starwalker, or "Starry," is a personality coded into [more . . .]