num_pages: 642
description: From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes the thrilling story of one woman’s quest to wrest truth from chaos, love from violence, and reality from illusion in a post-human universe of emergent AIs, genetic constructs, and illegal wetware...Spin StateUN Peacekeeper Major Catherine Li has made thirty-seven faster-than-light jumps in her lifetime—and has probably forgotten more than most people remember. But that’s what backup hard drives are for. And Li should know; she’s been hacking her memory for fifteen years in order to pass as human. But no memory upgrade can prepare Li for what she finds on Compson’s World: a mining colony she once called home and to which she is sent after a botched raid puts her on the bad side of the powers that be. A dead physicist who just happens to be her cloned twin. A missing dataset that could change the interstellar balance of power and turn a cold war hot. And a mining “accident” that is starting to look more and more like murder...Suddenly Li is chasing a killer in an alien world miles underground where everyone has a secret. And one wrong turn in streamspace, one misstep in the dark alleys of blackmarket tech and interstellar espionage, one risky hookup with an AI could literally blow her mind.
language: English
title: Spin State
titlecomplete: Spin State (Spin Trilogy, #1)
genres: Thriller, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Space, Space Opera
ratings_count: 2485
series: Spin Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Philip K. Dick Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Gaylactic Spectrum Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Prometheus Award
publisher: Bantam Spectra