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Robert Charles WilsonScience Fiction · Fiction·b. 1953
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On the enigmatic planet Equatoria, humanity lives under the watchful eye of the Hypotheticals, inscrutable machine intelligences. Turk Findley, a charter pilot with a past, is hired by Lise Adams, a journalist searching for her missing father, a scientist obsessed with the Hypotheticals' forbidden life extension technology. Meanwhile, a young boy named Isaac, genetically altered to bridge the gap between humans and AI, begins to awaken to his destiny as something vast and unknown stirs beneath the planet's surface.