Spin State — Chris Moriarty

From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes one of the most thrilling debut novels in years. Welcome to a posthuman universe of emergent Als, genetic constructs, and illegal wetware, where survival can be only a state of mind. Welcome to...

UN Peacekeeper Major Catherine Li has made thirty-seven faster-than-light jumps in her lifetime--and has forgotten more than most people remember. But that's what backup hard drives are for; Li's been hacking her memory for years. No memory upgrade can prepare Li for what she finds on Compson's World, a mining colony she once called home. A dead physicist who happens to be her cloned twin. A missing dataset that could change the interstellar balance of power and turn a cold war hot. And a mining "accident" starting to look like murder...Suddenly Li is chasing a killer in an alien world miles underground where everyone has a secret. And one wrong turn in streamspace, one misstep in the dark alleys of blackmarket tech and interstellar espionage, one risky hookup with an Al, could literally blow her mind.