Slabscape Series by S. Spencer Baker

Take the most sophisticated A.I. designed mind that has ever existed, encase it in over fifty million cubic kilometres of diamond nano-rods and send it off on a twenty-thousand-year odyssey towards the centre of the galaxy. Then screw it all up by allowing thirty-two million humans to go along for the ride...

There’s a billion-kilometre-wide stop sign in Slab’s path but the interns in SlabCouncil insist on sitting on their hands. Louie Drago doesn’t do hand-sitting so he gives council the benefit of his mind and makes plans to save his photonic skin. Dielle, freshly reset and oblivious to the threat, gets busy having fun with his new old friends until he’s diverted in ways he couldn’t have expected, but Kiki is more than happy to exploit... moreThere’s a billion-kilometre-wide stop sign in Slab’s path but the interns in SlabCouncil insist on sitting on their hands. Louie Drago doesn’t do hand-sitting so he gives council the benefit of his mind and makes plans to save his photonic skin. Dielle, freshly reset and oblivious to the threat, gets busy having fun with his new old friends until he’s diverted in ways he couldn’t have expected, but Kiki is more than happy to exploit. Meanwhile, the Cosmic Tit delivers an exiled version of Louie to the site of a four-hundred-year-old Earth mystery. It’s only when parts of a nearby solar system start disappearing that council are forced to do something they will deny until the end of the universe (or tea-time, depending on your asynchronology).[[profanity alert]]Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/slabscape.da... less