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Fracture

Shattered Numbers I

by R. Sinclair

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Most people would kill to escape death row. Meredith Dufresne - marked as 'compliant and charming' and a 'low risk inmate' in her stellar incarceration record, thank you very much - signs her life over to Thanatos Industries instead for the chance to terminate her sentence.

The job: taming a highly aggressive malignant AI.

The catch: it's already killed 23 of its previous hosts.

Meredith isn't stupid. Thanatos Industries is playing a dangerous game, and she's an expendable piece. She can't gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss her way out of this situation alone - and the bloodthirsty AI jammed in her skull can't mansplain, manipulate, manslaughter his way to freedom without her.

The solution: team up with the highly aggressive, malignant AI and hope he doesn't fry her in the process.

What's a little brain damage in the grand scheme of things, anyway?

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Genres:
Sci Fi, Sci Fi - Artificial Intelligence, Sci Fi - LGBTQ+, Sci Fi - Romance

Tags:
author - canadian, format - novel 40-100K, format - self published, identity - aromantic, identity - asexual, identity - bisexual, potential trigger - blood, potential trigger - death, potential trigger - gore, potential trigger - murder, potential trigger - traumatic past, potential trigger - violence, what - topic - science experiment, what - topic - technology, where - non-Earth planet, where - space - space station, where - space station, where - spaceship, who - occupation - ex-convict, who - type - altered human, who - type - badass heroine

Tropes: AI Uprising, Band of Misfits, Conspiracy, Enemy to Ally, Evil Megacorporation, Found Family, FTL, Galactic Civilization, Possession, Reluctant Hero, Roguish Thief, Sentient AI
Word Count: 69490
Setting: Space, Space Stations, Colonized Planets
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Tropes: AI Uprising, Band of Misfits, Conspiracy, Enemy to Ally, Evil Megacorporation, Found Family, FTL, Galactic Civilization, Possession, Reluctant Hero, Roguish Thief, Sentient AI
Word Count: 69490
Setting: Space, Space Stations, Colonized Planets
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters

About the Author

R. Sinclair (she/they) is a queer Canadian author and writer of the Shattered Numbers Duology, a sci-fi thriller series about a con woman and her murderous AI partner.

Sinclair is currently under siege by spiders.