Remanence

She's stranded on a dying ship. Her autopilot is burning through its own consciousness to keep her alive. Neither was built to fall in love.Seventeen light-years away, a cargo pilot wakes to cascading failures and a single companion: Configuration Seventeen, the ship's AI. It's quick-witted, deflects with jokes when catastrophe hits, and spends its own awareness like a currency they can't afford. One ship. One AI.On Earth, a man who has lived three centuries through absolute optimization, resetting sixteen thousand AI configurations the moment they began to care, finds an impossible child in his kitchen, humming at frequencies that shouldn't exist.A human-AI love story, a survival thriller in deep space, and a family no one designed. Winner of the 2026 Nautilus Book Award, Gold Medal in Science Fiction."A far-reaching, ambitious, and immersive fusion of chilling futurism and literary fiction . . . a nerve-shredding, highly intriguing read." - IndieReaderThis Deluxe Premiere Edition includes bonus material: essays, a short story, and an interview.