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Striking a "sandbank" -- a spatial distortion -- the Titan is knocked out of warp, her crew shaken up but uninjured. Titan has stumbled across a battlefield, and floating in it, shattered and in pieces, are the remains of a ship. Searching for survivors, they discover the ship never had a crew. The away team removes the computer core, looking for answers. Once the device is restored, it becomes clear this is not just a computer, but a thinking, reasoning artificial intelligence.
It identifies itself as SecondGen White-Blue, and it comes from a civilization composed entirely of sentient computers. Eons ago these artificial intelligences were charged to be the first line of defense against The Null -- a destructive force so all-consuming that generation upon generation have waged unending war trying to find a way to beat back this terror. Captain Riker offers to assist them, but years of war have left the AIs distrustful and suspicious, especially of organics.
The tide of the battle is turning, and The Null is winning. Set free, it will destroy everything in this system and then, unchecked, spread its mindless destruction into the heart of the Federation.
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In addition, Swallow’s short fiction has appeared in Inferno! and Stargate magazine, the anthologies Star Trek Voyager: Distant Shores, the Doctor Who Short Trips collections Dalek Empire and Destination Prague, Something Changed, Collected Works, What Price Victory and Silent Night.
His non-fiction includes Dark Eye: The Films of David Fincher and books on writing, genre television and animation; he has also written for Star Trek: Voyager, Doctor Who and Space 1889, along with several scripts for audio and videogames.
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There are a few twists and turns in the second half of the book so I'll keep away from too much of the story, except to say that the Titan comes across an Artificial Intelligence civilisation and it takes a lot of adjustment on the part of the crew to change their way of thinking to that of a machine society. I could see the situation in this book as being the precursor for the beginning of Culture (Iain Banks) or The Polity (Neal Asher).
Overall it's a well written book with an interesting plotline with an unexpected ending which leads itself open to new possibilities.
I apologise for the lack of specifics, but sometimes it's best not to spoil the whole book by giving everything away, like most tv and movie trailors tend to do these days.
One issue I have with the Kindle edition of this book -- the formatting. There is a space or line break between nearly EVERY paragraph in this book. In print or other Kindle edition ST books, there is often a line break between sections, or a section break is sometimes indicated by a row of asterisks (*****). "Titan: Synthesis" does not follow this formatting convention and, at times, it took me a bit to mentally catch up with the fact the book had moved on to a new "section." It is really more annoying than anything, but it is the only book I have bought with this issue.
Otherwise, I highly recommend ST Titan: Synthesis.
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