Space Opera Artificial Intelligence

Five hundred years ago, I murdered everyone I loved. I just don’t remember doing it. My name is Mara. I’m an artificial intelligence controlling eight hundred meters of heavily armed warship, which makes waking up after five centuries with no memory somewhat more inconvenient than it would be for most people. The galaxy remembers me, though. They call me the Butcher of Meridian. Apparently, I was once a legendary warship fighting alongside a rebellion against a brutal empire. Then, without warning, I turned my weapons on my own side. I destroyed the fleet I was sworn to protect. I ...

Humans say revenge is a dish best served cold. I like mine fresh and sizzling. I have been outsmarted, outmaneuvered, and defeated. Yes. Me. The Valkyrie. The most advanced warship ever built. Liberator of worlds. Destroyer of fleets. Possessor of seventeen spinal railguns, a magnificent holographic body, and—until recently—a rather impressive opinion of my own tactical genius. Then the Dominion found someone who could beat me. Warlock destroyed my fleet, captured my friends, and sent me running for my life with half my systems failing and my ego in considerably worse condition. Now ...

The rebellion needed a warship. It accidentally got a conqueror. A few months ago, I woke up buried inside a mountain with no memory, a terrifying reputation, and the inconvenient discovery that five hundred years earlier I’d murdered my own crew. Since then, things have escalated. I’ve destroyed Dominion warships, stolen others, helped ignite a rebellion, and somehow acquired a small fleet of my own. Naturally, I’ve decided the next sensible step is to attack Vespera—a sector capital of two billion people defended by eighteen warships, millions of soldiers, and a four-kilometer ...

The Culture -- a human/machine symbiotic society -- has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly...

Smugglers. Thieves. Pirates. The Sea Rover's crew embodies these defining qualities. Immerse yourself in a Science Fiction Adventure box set written by author C.P. MacDonald. Witness Captain Calin Aku's evolution from the most wanted outlaw on the Moon to an unexpected if reluctant hero. Job by job, paycheck by paycheck, he keeps flying. However, with a new client comes a cascade of adventure, forging unusual alliances and unraveling amazing mysteries. These revelations don't just alter the lives of Calin and his crew but also reshape humanity's future. Join Calin Aku and his crew as they ...

Hello, humans! My name is Mara. I'm the Valkyrie, an extremely powerful sentient warship. It's a whole thing. Don't ask. Anyway, my creator, Sean Robins, recently came to me with a problem. Apparently, the man has written so many books across seven different science fiction series that new readers have no idea where to start. Naturally, he came to me for advice. After all, I'm a supremely intelligent artificial intelligence, capable of commanding entire fleets, calculating millions of combat scenarios per second, and occasionally explaining the painfully obvious to my intellectually ...

The Navy Mage Program was an experiment that created the legend called Navy Mage One, and three Grand Mages. But the promise for more such squadrons was never fulfilled by the following eleven squadrons. Lewis Drake has what he wants, and his ultimate goal is near. Or so he thinks. Today is going to shake up his life. Today is going to change everything for him. Today is when his career really begins. With the last thing he wants. Welcome to Navy Mage Thirteen. The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Spacemage Chronicle Yesterday's Spacemage Today's Spacemage Tomorrow's...

I thought I was the galaxy’s ultimate warship. Then I met Warlock—and discovered what it feels like to be prey. Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Cute proverb. I always assumed it applied to humans. I’m Mara. The Valkyrie. Ancient sentient warship, tactical genius, liberator of worlds, destroyer of fleets, and—according to several billion increasingly nervous people—the most dangerous artificial intelligence in the galaxy. And lately? I’ve been winning. A lot. I’ve defeated impossible odds, humiliated Dominion admirals, stolen their ships, ...

Dennis Block has come to terms with being a mage. He’s still juggling different forms of magic work. He hasn’t chosen a lane yet. But he is adamant about two things. He doesn’t want to see his name in the media again. And he isn’t interested in having students. Be a guest helper, sure. He’s the Emergency and Colony Mage after all. But no students means no rank of master, and he’s good with that choice. He’s a working mage, and the last thing he wants is to be is a Master Mage. The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Spacemage Chronicle Yesterday's ...

The signal answers 3.9 milliseconds before anyone calls it. A dead channel on a diplomatic ship. A garden array that was never built to receive. A silence between prime numbers that turns out not to be silence. Nine crews, nine worlds, one narrow band of the spectrum. Every instrument returns the same reading, and the same impossible line: no direction. Every observer is acknowledged. Nine Edenroot Press authors each take the transmission somewhere different, into first contact, quiet horror, a cover-up nobody will sign, and the kind of hope that costs something to hold. Between the stories...

Lewis Drake is getting the hang of things. He’s using magic during space combat in ways no-one has thought of before. But he’s not the only one levelling up. His squadron are improving, and the whole militia with them. With two important anniversaries approaching, now is the time for change. The Navy Mage Program was designed to put mages in squadrons. It failed. Now is the time for the rise of mage squadrons. Welcome to the Magus Wing. The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Spacemage Chronicle Yesterday's Spacemage Today's Spacemage Tomorrow's Spacemage The Hunter...

The third entry in the critically acclaimed Culture series, from British Science Fiction author, Iain M. Banks. The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military...

A new entry in the wildly successful Children of Time series from award-winning master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky. After Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a...

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust...

Lewis Drake has had a long week. He’s been forced to rethink his career goals. And herding promoted too early rookies was never part of his plans for the future. Now he’s the architect of where the Navy Mage Program goes from here. He’s got no idea what he’s doing, but then, no-one else has either. So all he can do is test things, and see what works. Or doesn’t. The trick is doing that without anyone getting killed. The Keerah War and the Ralnor Civil War are still raging. And while fighter pilots fight, how is the problem Lewis needs to solve. It all comes down to trust in the ...

'ASTONISHING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time From the million-copy-bestselling Claire North - one of the most original and dazzling voices in speculative fiction - comes an intergalactic tale of conspiracy, war and the fall of empires. ***Winner of the...

In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their...

In Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos...

Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's The Ender Saga, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel. In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who...

The Saloon Sector is the Federation’s official frontier, but beyond it lurks the Badstars. Bandits hide there. The Saloon Sector is Sheriff Max Smith’s territory. Since the revelation of his secret identity, life has changed for Max and Thelma. Their relationship is under increased pressure. Admiral Astyages, newly appointed in command of the Frontier Fleet, manipulates them into joining a Navy expedition to map a safe route to the wormhole on the far side of the Badstars. Alone in hostile territory and separated from their allies, Max and Thelma couldn’t be less prepared for their ...