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Lyssa's Return

Lyssa's Return

Sentience Wars
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A thirty-year stalemate between humanity and the Psion AIs is ending...

But the AIs have not been idle. Their agents are everywhere and the seeds of rebellion and dissent have taken root. Humanity’s home system is a powder keg, and when the match is lit, all of Sol will erupt.

Cara has been in prison for four years, her mind numbed by docility, unaware of what's been brewing. When a mysterious agent breaks her free, she finds herself caught up in a web of intrigue, double-dealing, and political machinations.

The Sykes family saved Sol from a human-AI war once before. Now it's up to Cara and her sister Lyssa to turn the tide, and keep the galaxy’s two dominant species from tearing one another apart.

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Book themes:

Tropes: AI Sentience & Emergence · AI Rights & Personhood · Artificial Intelligence Characters · AI Trafficking · Found Family · Ship-Crew Ensemble · Coming of Age · Gritty Science Fiction · Near-Future Science Fiction · No Faster-Than-Light Travel · Hard Science Fiction · Galactic War · Space Opera · Human-AI Partnership · Long-Running Bingeable Universe

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The Expanse

If you love the lived-in realism and political sweep of The Expanse, Lyssa's Return delivers the same grounded space opera at a galaxy's scale.

Ringworld / Known Space

If the megastructures and big-idea hard SF of Ringworld thrill you, Lyssa's Return builds on that same engineer's-eye scale.

Honor Harrington

If you came up on Honor Harrington's fleet battles and command-deck tension, Lyssa's Return brings the same naval-warfare-in-space punch.

Vatta's War

If Elizabeth Moon's Vatta's War scratched your military-and-trade space opera itch, Lyssa's Return is built for you.

The Murderbot Diaries

If Murderbot made you care what personhood means for an AI, Lyssa's Return lives squarely in that question.

Revelation Space

If Alastair Reynolds' hard, sublight-honest space opera is your thing, Lyssa's Return keeps the same respect for real distance.

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