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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. But in the Tenth Millennium, a billion worlds circle the Sun—everything from terraformed planets to artificial habitats, home to a quadrillion beings. Zee is convinced she’s out there somewhere. Then Zee helps Adya—a girl, but definitely <i>not</i> his dream girl—escape a gang of crooks. To get away, the pair must join the hunt for the Godel Trigger, a legendary weapon left over from the ancient war between humans and machines. Now Daslakh must aid in the search, keep Zee’s love life on the right track, and make sure that nobody discovers the real secret of the Godel Trigger—for that would spell doom for men, machines, and the Solar System itself!<br> <br> <b>About <i>The Godel Operation</i>:</b><br> <br> “With this freewheeling story of an ancient, cunning artificial intelligence and its naïve human companion, Cambias (<i>The Initiate</i>) mashes humor, mystery, and looming apocalypse into a roundly satisfying space epic. . . . With plenty of fun moments along the way, this raucous adventure through the solar system’s distant future will appeal to any fan of lighter science fiction.”—<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br> <br>"Cambias makes his solar system feel very alive, with wildly different cultures on different planets and moons. It is far-future space opera that is astronomically contained, and written with a lightning bolt."—<i>Warped Factor</i><br> <br> <b>Praise for <i>Arkad's World</i><i>:</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 objecti