Kim Miller
Some big ideas but it got tedious for me. And the silliest aliens - talking dogs with pack identities and overall hive mind. No opposable thumbs so they do everything with their teeth, even crossbows and garden tools.
Some researchers in the far future unearth an ancient AI on a distant planet. (Is it 'unearth if it's not on Earth?) It gets loose and takes over all tech installations, planet systems, space ship controls, everything. It spreads rapidly through that section of the galaxy and earns the name, The Blight. The scientists try to escape it in a couple of ships and one has to emergency land on another planet in The Deep - a portion of the galaxy where all tech runs super slowly or not at all. They are attacked by a faction of the locals, the hive mind dogs.
The adults are killed, two kids survive, along with hundreds of other children in stasis pods. a war erupts between dog factions, each one capturing one of the surviving children. Meanwhile, another scientist tries to rescue them from light years away.
However, the Blight knows that there is something vital to it on the downed spaceship and chases the rescuers. This is when the story takes off with a bit of excitement and movement. The dog war continues, the kids each think they are the only survivor, the Blight looks like catching up. The rescuers gets there first, things get to a climax, a lot of people die, the 'important' ones survive but seem to be marooned on this primitive planet.
Some big ideas but it got tedious for me. And the silliest aliens - talking dogs with pack identities and overall hive mind. No opposable thumbs so they do everything with their teeth, even crossbows and garden tools.
Some researchers in the far future unearth an ancient AI on a distant planet. (Is it 'unearth if it's not on Earth?) It gets loose and takes over all tech installations, planet systems, space ship controls, everything. It spreads rapidly through that section of the galaxy and earns the name, The Blight. The scientists try to escape it in a couple of ships and one has to emergency land on another planet in The Deep - a portion of the galaxy where all tech runs super slowly or not at all. They are attacked by a faction of the locals, the hive mind dogs.
The adults are killed, two kids survive, along with hundreds of other children in stasis pods. a war erupts between dog factions, each one capturing one of the surviving children. Meanwhile, another scientist tries to rescue them from light years away.
However, the Blight knows that there is something vital to it on the downed spaceship and chases the rescuers. This is when the story takes off with a bit of excitement and movement. The dog war continues, the kids each think they are the only survivor, the Blight looks like catching up. The rescuers gets there first, things get to a climax, a lot of people die, the 'important' ones survive but seem to be marooned on this primitive planet.