Michael Barnes
This was a delightful discovery, its one of the story ideas that just click.
A spaceship AI who love nothing more than traveling Earth and Alpha Centauri B. With a name like Demeter you were bound to carry Dracula on board. Since vampires aren't seen on technology then the death of all the crew and passengers creates a mystery. Next trip its a shapeshifting werewolf, also more death, next trip its passengers are infected with a body transforming Cthulhu cult, subsequently we meet a Frankenstien linked to the first mass deaths, an alien hive that seems consider its self an ancient mummy called Steve.
Its the dialog and back and forths getting to know Demeter, seeing points of view from Steward, Demeter’s on-board medical AI. Steward is practical and sarcastic, with a human-interaction module that helps them see things that Demeter can’t. On another of Demeter’s ill-fated flights, she must find a way to save two children from something on board, something that she can only find reference to in her folklore files. Between Demeter’s highly logical AI and Steward’s human-interaction skills, they work together to achieve their mission objective and save the children.
But after so many unexplained occurrences and catastrophic flights, people are beginning to suspect that the ship is the problem and Demeter is in danger of being scrapped for being a ‘ghost ship’.
This story as I said was a cheerful delight and sometimes that is what you need to read.
This was a delightful discovery, its one of the story ideas that just click.
A spaceship AI who love nothing more than traveling Earth and Alpha Centauri B. With a name like Demeter you were bound to carry Dracula on board. Since vampires aren't seen on technology then the death of all the crew and passengers creates a mystery. Next trip its a shapeshifting werewolf, also more death, next trip its passengers are infected with a body transforming Cthulhu cult, subsequently we meet a Frankenstien linked to the first mass deaths, an alien hive that seems consider its self an ancient mummy called Steve.
Its the dialog and back and forths getting to know Demeter, seeing points of view from Steward, Demeter’s on-board medical AI. Steward is practical and sarcastic, with a human-interaction module that helps them see things that Demeter can’t. On another of Demeter’s ill-fated flights, she must find a way to save two children from something on board, something that she can only find reference to in her folklore files. Between Demeter’s highly logical AI and Steward’s human-interaction skills, they work together to achieve their mission objective and save the children.
But after so many unexplained occurrences and catastrophic flights, people are beginning to suspect that the ship is the problem and Demeter is in danger of being scrapped for being a ‘ghost ship’.
This story as I said was a cheerful delight and sometimes that is what you need to read.