Blind Angels

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Camber Maypole was human once an avid climber and chief medical officer aboard the launch crew of the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Vera Rubin</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a colony ship headed for a distant planet. But the day before launch she was scrubbed from the mission for insubordination. Against her will her consciousness was digitized and sent through space to a distant moon in a distant star system.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Varanasi.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Centuries later the AI controlled </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Vera Rubin</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> approaches its destination. Aboard the ship Seraph Stone down-on-his-luck farmer father and alcoholic receives a message from a long-dead member of the original crew. He's told to contact Camber Maypole who waits for their arrival with thousands of immortal exiles like her lost in a digital paradise. The message warns of a cabal of digitized minds who threaten the lives of the arriving colonists if they even make it that far. Starvation political division and a cult of extremists threaten to tear the ship apart from the inside. Faced with a choice between his family and humanity Seraph is determined to save them both but risks losing it all.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As Maypole turns from her role as doctor to warrior she begins to understand why she was sent to Varanasi and that there is more to being human than your hardware.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For fans of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Altered Carbon</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Snow Crash</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p>