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<b>Science fiction at its sense-of-wonder best. A wild chase through the billion worlds of the Tenth Millennium in search of a mythical weapon that could save civilization—or doom it! </b><br><br><b>A DROID AND HIS BOY, ON A SEARCH FOR A LEGENDARY WEAPON</b><br> <br> Daslakh is an AI with a problem. Its favorite human, a young man named Zee, is in love with a woman who never existed — and he will scour the Solar System to find her. But in the Tenth Millennium a billion worlds circle the Sun—everything from terraformed planets to artificial habitats, home to a quadrillion beings.<br> <br> Daslakh's nicely settled life gets more complicated when Zee helps a woman named Adya escape a gang of crooks. This gets the pair caught up in the hunt for the Godel Trigger, a legendary weapon left over from an ancient war between humans and machines—which could spell the end of civilization.<br> <br> In their search, they face a criminal cat and her henchmen, a paranoid supermind with a giant laser, the greatest thief in history, and a woman who might actually be Zee's lost love.<br> <br> It's up to Daslakh to save civilization, keep Zee's love life on the right track—and make sure that nobody discovers the <i>real</i> secret of the Godel Trigger.<br> <br> <b>Praise for <i>Arkad's World</i>:</b><br> “Far-flung adventure . . . Cambias offers up an entertaining coming-of-age novel filled with action and surprises. His aliens are suitably non-human in mannerisms, attitudes, and objectives, and his worldbuilding suggests a vast universe ready for further exploration. Readers . . . will find this hits the spot.”—<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br> <br> “. . . a classic quest story, a well-paced series of encounters with different folk along the way, building momentum toward a final confrontation with Arkad's past . . . [with] a delicious twist to the end.”—<i>ALA Booklist</i><br> <br> “Cambias has achieved a feat of world-building: an expansive, believable setting with fascinating aliens, com