Loki's Ring
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Gita Chithra embarks on a mission through space to save the robot she loves as a daughter—or risk losing her in the depths of Loki’s Ring—in this intergalactic space adventure from beloved author Stina Leicht.
Gita Chithra, the captain of the intergalactic ship The Tempest, is used to leading her crew on simple retrieval and assistance missions. But when she receives a frantic distress call from Ri, the AI she trained from inception—making her like a daughter to Gita—she knows she’s in for something much more dangerous.
Ri is trapped in the depths of Loki’s Ring, an artificial alien-made solar system, and says everyone in the vicinity has been infected and killed by a mysterious contagion. Gita and her team investigate, only to discover horrors at every turn, and are soon stranded themselves, leaving them vulnerable to infection and attack.
Forced to call on an old friend to help them out of this mess, Gita must succeed or risk losing everyone she’s ever loved.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This thrilling space opera from Leicht (Persephone Station) kicks off with Search and Rescue captain Gita Chithra receiving a distress call from Ri, the artificial intelligence she raised like a daughter. Fascinating explorations of the early cognitive development of AI, their rights, and the recognition of personhood in non-humans come to the fore while Gita and her crew race to the mysterious, alien-constructed world of Loki's Ring to rescue Ri. On arriving, Gita discovers the starship from which Ri transmitted adrift in space and filled with the corpses of its crew, who succumbed to a highly contagious biomechanical substance originating from an illegal mining operation. Then representatives of the hyper-capitalist Norton Independent Alliance appear at the crime scene, and the situation becomes a diplomatic nightmare. A sophisticated espionage subplot surfaces as Gita desperately appeals to a former friend to save herself, her crew, and her beloved Ri, while well-timed shifts between character perspectives reveal that nothing about Loki's Ring or the mysterious contagion is quite what it seems. The result is a riveting cocktail of high-stakes adventure, philosophical musing, complex family dynamics, and cloak-and-dagger intrigue. Readers won't want to put this down.
