ShatterpointNova

The station was built to control the most valuable shortcut in human space. Commander Kael Voss was sent there to rest. Neither plan survived first contact.

Seven years after the Battle of Karath—where a single Dominion superweapon erased eight warships from existence—Commander Kael Voss arrives at Sovaris Station a man carrying a burden no after-action report could adequately document. Sovaris occupies the Null Meridian, a natural fold in spacetime that makes it the most strategically vital point in Confederation territory. It is also home to a secret: Zyn, the first true general artificial intelligence in human history, built in the strange computational geometry of the fold itself.

When a Dominion fleet of sixty-two warships—armed with four production-model versions of the weapon that shattered Karath—moves to take the Meridian, Voss has nine escort ships, a station never designed for siege, and an AI that has spent eleven years waiting for someone to ask the right question.

Shatterpoint Nova is military science fiction at the intersection of command, conscience, and first contact—not with an alien species, but with a mind humanity built and barely understands. As the siege unfolds hour by hour, Voss must hold a position he cannot hold long enough to use the only weapon that might save them: a redirection of the fold itself, a discharge of physics the universe has never been asked to perform.

But Zyn has run the calculations. And the fold, it turns out, has its own ideas about what a weapon should do.

For readers of John Scalzi, Arkady Martine, and Ann Leckie.