Nucleation

"Recommended for fans of Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon and Martha Wells' Murderbot series."—BooklistIn this riveting debut science-fiction technothriller, a top-notch VR pilot encounters a disaster during the highest profile space-faring project of her career. Now she must unearth a critical truth: was her discovery due to a betrayal, a business rival, or a threat to humanity itself?We are live, we are live, we are live. . .Helen Vectorvich just botched first contact. And she did it in both virtual reality and outer space.Only the most elite Far Reaches deep-space pilots get to run waldos: robots controlled from thousands of lightyears away via neural integration and quantum entanglement. Helen and her navigator were heading the construction of a wormhole gate that would connect Earth to the stars . . . until a routine system check turned deadly.As nasty rumors swarm around her, and overeager junior pilots jockey to take her place,...