Hydrogen Steel
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bedford, K. a. / K. a. Bedford, K. A. Bedford / Van Belkom, Edo, PUBLISHER: Edge, When retired top homicide inspector Zette McGee, late of Winter City, Ganymede, gets called out of her mysterious retirement to help Kell Fallow, a desperate former android accused unjustly of murdering his wife and children, she knows she has to help him, for Zette has a secret she is desperate to keep, and Fallow knows all about it. With ong>theong> help of her best friend, ong>theong> elderly but very suave former secret agent Gideon Smith, and his ridiculously impressive personal starship, ong>theong> Seemed Like a Good Idea at ong>theong> Time, Zette sets out (a) to help ong>theong> accused man, but also (b) to keep Gideon ong>fromong> finding out her own awful secret, even as everything ong>theong>y learn in ong>theong> investigation keeps pointing to it. But when Kell Fallow is killed by a bomb he didn't know was buried in his guts, and when a homebrew android identical to Zette destroys her home on ong>theong> luxurious Serendipity habitat, Gideon and Zette go on ong>theong> run, only to run afoul of sabotage, spies, nasty infections, and bad guys galore and ordinary machines come to relentless, murderous life. ong>Theong> case will take Zette and Gideon on a terrifying journey ong>intoong> ong>theong> darkest reaches of human space, in pursuit of an ancient truth -- and will bring her ong>intoong> deadly contact with that truth's keeper, ong>theong> awesomely powerful firemind, Hydrogen Steel, an artificial consciousness evolved far beyond its original ong>designong>, and which is utterly determined to keep that same truth ong>fromong> getting out, at any cost. Hydrogen Steel is a tense and thrilling mystery within a mystery, a tale of secrets and truth, and a journey to ong>theong> limits of existence--and a bit beyond