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'A few years ago, a military doctor walking the corridors of New Jakarta Station saved Melati’s life. She signed up for the International Space Force to pay back her moral debt to him. But her family thinks she has betrayed her people. It was ISF who forcefully removed their grandmothers and grandfathers from the crowded slums of Jakarta to work in interstellar space stations.
'It is Melati’s job to teach six-year-old construct soldiers, artificial humans grown in labs and activated with programmed minds. Her latest cohort has one student who claims that he is not a little boy, but a mindbase traveller whose swap partner took off with his body. It soon becomes clear that a lot of people are scouring the station for this man, a scientist with dangerous knowledge.
'The best place to hide in the station is amongst the many cultures and subcultures of the expat Indonesian B-sector. Looking for him brings Melati into direct conflict with her people. She does not want to be seen as one of the enemy, but if the scientist’s knowledge falls in the wrong hands, war will come to the station.
'Set in the same world and using some of the same characters as the above shorter works [see Related Works], this novel involves the seething mass of forcibly relocated third-generation ex-Indonesians in New Jakarta Station. It involves the artificial humans that Charlotte worked with. It involves the International Space Force, and the scientist Paul Ormerod, and the big evil enemy Allion Aerospace.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Charlotte's Army
Sydney
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Capricornia Publications
,
2011
8271536
2011
single work
novella
science fiction
'In a far future, a fleet of ships hurtles through space on its way to a distant war. Aboard the ships is an army of artificial human soldiers, highly trained and dangerous. Doctor Charlotte West, the neuro-technologist responsible for the soldiers’ artificial brains, travels in the support fleet. Two months before the arrival at the war site, the soldiers start fighting each other and disobeying commands. When they are brought in for tests, Charlotte finds that all seven thousand men share a pathological obsession with her.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Luminescence
United States of America (USA)
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Patty Jansen
,
2011
8271602
2011
single work
short story
science fiction
'While diving in the methane lakes on Titan’s south pole, Hadie’s fiancee Paul Ormerod is struck by mysterious ‘lightning’ from a glass sphere. Hadie, a construct, artificial human, battles prejudice and hostility to help him recover, and discovers the truth behind the spheres.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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His Name In Lights
Sydney
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Capricornia Publications
,
2012
8271714
2012
single work
novella
science fiction
'On the strongly volcanic and radiation-soaked surface of the moon Io, the smallest mishap means mortal peril, even for artificial humans like Daniel and Oscar. Clones are expendable and easy to re-create. Why then does company boss Eilin Gunnarsson care so much about these young men that she sends them warnings written on the clouds of Jupiter?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Shifting Infinity
Sydney
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Capricornia Publications
,
2015
9682402
2015
single work
novel
science fiction
'Melati escaped New Jakarta space station when it fell into Allion's hands. Her family was left behind the enemy lines. She signed up for active duty with the International Space Force in the hope they would liberate the station. Instead, they chose to maintain a crippling siege that has lasted for ten months. A small ship escapes from the station with on board a single male occupant whose mind appears to have been wiped. With her skills in artificial mindbases, Melati is part of the team that tries to get information out of him. He could be a human Trojan horse sent by Allion and his calls for help nothing more than a trap to get ISF to send people to the station. Or he could be a genuine escapee from the station where the recycling processes have collapsed and ten thousand civilians have mere weeks until they die of asphyxiation. Either way, the time for watching and waiting is over. War is about to begin.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
