The Nome King and the Shroud is new space opera novella by Hugo Award winner Tim Pratt.
Mazha Sun is a "troublesolver," a specialist in dealing with the unexpected, and when she's awakened from cryosleep years ahead of schedule, she knows something is very wrong. The colony ship's AI tells her it's detected something incredible: a Dyson sphere, an immense stellar structure created by unknown aliens, seemingly dormant and abandoned.
Since the sphere is close (astronomically speaking) to their planned homeworld, Mazha decides they should take a closer look. But the sphere isn't as dead as it seems: it has an operative artificial intelligence called Shroud, who asks for help staving off a megastructure-destroying cataclysm. Mazha will just need to wake up a few of her colleagues first....
But can Shroud be trusted? And once they enter the interior of the sphere... will the crew and the sleeping colonists ever be allowed to leave?
Genre: Science Fiction
Mazha Sun is a "troublesolver," a specialist in dealing with the unexpected, and when she's awakened from cryosleep years ahead of schedule, she knows something is very wrong. The colony ship's AI tells her it's detected something incredible: a Dyson sphere, an immense stellar structure created by unknown aliens, seemingly dormant and abandoned.
Since the sphere is close (astronomically speaking) to their planned homeworld, Mazha decides they should take a closer look. But the sphere isn't as dead as it seems: it has an operative artificial intelligence called Shroud, who asks for help staving off a megastructure-destroying cataclysm. Mazha will just need to wake up a few of her colleagues first....
But can Shroud be trusted? And once they enter the interior of the sphere... will the crew and the sleeping colonists ever be allowed to leave?
Genre: Science Fiction
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