
The Bone Machine
by David Holper

For a century, humanity has endured a precarious peace with the sentient AI, Heimer. But when an impossible signal reveals the colossal Stapledon Station, the UN ship Kia-Kaha is despatched into the void. Xenoarchaeologist Clio Cormack soon discovers the construct hides a secret buried by political manoeuvring. Defying her superiors, Clio pierces the cosmic veil, proving her theories right, and plunging her crew into a race against a power that could consume the stars. Discovery has a price.