From the bestselling author of the epic Malazan Book of the Fallen, comes a story of mankind\'s first contact and a warning about our future.
And she must make a decision..
She is the only person the AI will talk to.
A science fiction writer, she was abducted from the middle of the street in broad daylight.
Can we adapt? Can we prove ourselves worthy? And are we prepared to give up free will for a world without violence?And above it all, on a hidden spaceship, one woman watches.
But a certain thin-skinned US president, among others, is still wedded to late-stage capitalism.
The old way of doing things is gone.
You can\'t even bully someone on the internet any more.
Food and water will be provided for those who really, truly need them.
Large-scale destruction of natural resources is impossible.
Violence is now impossible.
So it sets up some conditions.
Should it save mankind or wipe it out? Are we worth it?The AI is all-powerful, and might as well be a god.
But we are also part of the system, so the AI must make a choice.
Its mission is to save the Earth\'s ecosystem - and the biggest threat to that is humanity.
An alien AI has been sent to the solar system as representative of three advanced species.
From the bestselling author of the epic Malazan Book of the Fallen, comes a story of mankind\'s first contact and a warning about our future
