“...the author had me rooting for Maria B from almost the first page.”
“In a thrilling life-or-death challenge evoking the emotional intensity of Ender’s Game, Maria B explores with clever acuity what it means to be a decent human(e) being.”
Maria B Develops an Inconvenient Consciousness
A headless humanoid robot engineered for battle, Maria B is sent to the fragile colony on Giant to fight the enigmatic Morphies. While Maria B struggles to fulfill the expectations of the colony’s overbearing general, she suffers the agony of evolving from cold circuits to a being of reason and emotion. Is she becoming human? Or is she just as alien to humanity as the Morphies she battles?
As she wages war in the crystalline forests of Giant, the shielded domes of Bubble City, and in orbit above the giant orange planet she now calls home, Maria B must confront betrayal, sacrifice, and the essence of what makes her alive.
No head, all heart. Maria B fights not just for survival, but for a soul she never knew she had.
