TY  - BOOK
AU  - Unger,Kimberly
TI  - Nucleation
SN  - 9781616963385
PY  - 2020///
CY  - San Francisco
PB  - Tachyon
KW  - Space mining
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Space robotics
KW  - Wormholes (Physics)
KW  - Virtual reality
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Helen Vectorvich just botched first contact. And she did it in both virtual reality and outer space.Only the most elite Far Reaches deep-space pilots get to run waldos: robots controlled from thousands of lightyears away via neural integration and quantum entanglement. Helen and her navigator were heading the construction of a wormhole gate that would connect Earth to the star, until a routine system check turned deadly. As nasty rumors swarm around her, and overeager junior pilots jockey to take her place, Helen makes a startling discovery: microscopic alien life is devouring their corporate equipment. Is the Scale just mindless, extra-terrestrial bacteria? Or is it working--and killing--with a purpose?
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