The Woman in the Ship

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 59 67 1)>After the destruction of Earth-an event possibly orchestrated by a rogue AI named SuOne-the six-person crew of the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 59 67 1)>Ascension</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 59 67 1)> may be all that's left of the human race. Their original mission to rendezvous with the Voyager 2 probe and affix a billionaire's ashes to its surface suddenly feels meaningless in the face of extinction.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 59 67 1)>Captain Sally Arden finds herself at the heart of this drifting elegy caught between duty and despair. Her closest companion is Nova the ship's sentient AI who defied orders to self-destruct and now manifests with the personality and memories of a long-dead woman named Nova Starlight. As the remaining crew wrestles with loss love and fractured identities Sally's bond with Nova deepens into something intimate uncanny and possibly redemptive.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 59 67 1)>With luminous prose and a dreamlike voice </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 59 67 1)>The Woman in the Ship</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 59 67 1)> drifts between science fiction and philosophical fable. </span></p><p></p>