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Tony Ballantyne

Divergence

pbk 04 May 07

Capacity

About the Author

Bibliography

British Pbk Original - Tor (2007)

Divergence
The robot Constantine notices an Artificial Intelligence spontaneously coming into being on a distant planet...and watches helplessly as it is destroyed.
In deep space, far from Earth, Judy senses a change of mood aboard the passenger ship she travels on...and a quick investigation reveals that the craft is succumbing to a mysterious alien infestation.
Just as hope seems lost, a group of combat drones appears to rescue all the passengers, except Judy - who is told she is the property of a forgotten mega-corporation based on Earth.
Returned against her wishes to an Earth under constant assault from the same alien infestation, Judy begins to learn her place in a conspiracy billions of years old.
But is she ready to take on the benign, omnipotent, all-seeing Watcher who guides human destiny?
And destroy it?
'A new British star has arrived to join the likes of Hamilton, Reynolds and Banks' Vector
'Full of invention and ideas, guaranteed to revive a sense of wonder’ The Times

British Pbk Original - Tor (2006)

Capacity
Society in the twenty-third century runs smoothly and peacefully with the aid of Social Care operatives such as Judy 3. Meanwhile benevolent AIs, under the control of the near-mythical Watcher, seem to have solved all humankind’s problems, and with their aid humans have begun to explore the surrounding universe.
But why does every AI that visits the planet Gateway commit suicide within just hours of arriving there? Justinian Sibelius has now himself arrived on the planet to try and find a reason. Yet how can someone with merely human intelligence solve a puzzle that has defeated minds far greater than his own – even that of the Watcher itself?
And what if it should turn out that the Watcher is not so benevolent as people once believed?

About The Author
Tony Ballantyne was born in County Durham an now lives in the Manchester area with his wife and two children. He contributed to publications as diverse as Interzone, My Weekly and Private Eye before publication of his first novel, Recursion. This is his second.

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Divergence (Tor Pbk, 2007) Pbk May 07

Capacity (Tor Pbk, 2006)