Or whether she really is-impossibly-the lone survivor of a species destroyed a millennium ago. Again.Īnd most days, she can almost accept that she’ll never know the truth-that she’ll never know why humanity was deemed too dangerous to exist. Or making sure her adoptive mother doesn’t casually eviscerate one of their neighbors.
Like hiding her identity among the hundreds of alien species roaming the corridors of Watertower Station. Most days, she’s got other things on her mind. Most days, Sarya doesn’t feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy. “Big ideas and believable science amid a roller-coaster ride of aliens, AI, superintelligence, and the future of humanity.”-Dennis E. “A good old-fashioned space opera in a thoroughly fresh package.”-Andy Weir, author of The Martian Her animal uniqueness may, as in tales of this sort, be a key to setting things right.The last human in the universe must battle unfathomable alien intelligences-and confront the truth about humanity-in this ambitious, galaxy-spanning debut Sarya is smart, but the levels of Intelligence revealed (or half-revealed) by the civilizations of the galaxy are persuasively rendered by Jordan as being beyond her comprehension. Sarya is soon swept into an Faster-Than-Light-enabled Fantastic Voyage through various extremely complex, high-baroque Space Opera venues, encountering vast Starships on missions, group minds (see Hive Minds), a few species perceptible as experiencing Transcendence, Living Worlds and much else.
In his first novel, The Last Human ( 2020), which is set seemingly millennia hence, a young human is raised by a spiderlike being on a Space Habitat in orbit around a gas planet very far from Earth young Sarya the Daughter is in fact the last human (see Last Man) alive, homo sapiens having been destroyed by galaxy-wide consensus, because we are incapable of controlling our greed and aggression. (? - ) US Videogame creator, singer/songwriter and author who has released games and music as U S Killbotics.
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