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An artists brain rules a team of a million microbial mindsfrom the Campbell Award winning author of A Door into Ocean. In the hundred-level city of Iridis, human lords recycle diamonds and emeralds down to the Underworld while sentient machines pilot lightcraft and perform surgeries. Microbial minds expand the brains of scientists and artists. The artist Chrys directs her microbes to paint startling installations, design smart buildings and fix quantum networks. A world-size virtual intelligence called Transit commissions Chrys to create a whole new city on another planet. But unexpected flaws fracture her designs. Microbial criminal gangs invade Chryss brain to kill off her own micros and take control. In Iridis, the roots of buildings grow cancers that escape the Underworld and cause earthquakes. Outlawed machines shake down shops and kidnap human lords for ransom. The citys rulers ignore the signs of collapse, then face a new threat that no mind foresaw. Autorid: Joan Slonczewski

Illustrated edition with bonus (never before published) short story. Once, Dan flew amongst the stars as a decorated Fleet Officer. Now destitute, he sleeps on the streets of Gleam, trading his body for a drug called Haze that dulls the pain of what hes lost with nothing left to his name but a battered knife, a damaged mind, and a past he cant escape. But he is given a rare second chance when former comrades track him down and make an offer that he never expected. Across the galaxy, the invisible lanes of faster-than-light travelthe shuntsare beginning to fail. One has already vanished without warning. If the rest collapse, entire civilizations will be cut off, stranded, and left to die. The Fleet needs someone who can read the hyperspace currents like no one else. Someone like Dan. But bringing him back into the fold wont be easyand keeping him alive may be even harder. Thrown together with a crew of misfits and old friends carrying wounds of their own, Dan boards a disguised merchant ship on a secret mission to uncover the truth. What they find will challenge everything they believeabout the shunts, about the Fleet, and each other. And through it all, Dan must battle the addiction that nearly destroyed him and still might. Haze is a bold, character-driven space adventure that blends high-stakes intrigue with raw emotional depth. Gritty, moving, and impossible to put down, its a story of redemption, found family, and the fragile ties that hold the starsand ourselvestogether. Autorid: Katharine Kerr