Crossover by Joel Shepherd

Crossover

A Cassandra Kresnov Novel

Joel Shepherd

Pyr · Print & ebook · August 1, 2006

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Who it’s for
Military space adventure meets questions of artificial personhood and the search for belonging.
Themes
Artificial sentience and moral status, Belonging and survival, Friendship between former enemies
Pacing
Mixed

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About this book

Crossover is the first novel in a series which follows the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial person, or android, created by the League, one side of an interstellar war against the more powerful, conservative Federation. Cassandra is an experimental design — more intelligent, more creative, and far more dangerous than any that have preceded her. But with her intellect come questions, and a moral awakening.

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She deserts the League and heads incognito into the space of her former enemy, the Federation, in search of a new life. Her chosen world is Callay, and its enormous, decadent capital metropolis of Tanusha, where the concerns of the war are literally and figuratively so many light years away. But the war between the League and the Federation was ideological as much as political, with much of that ideological dispute regarding the very existence of artificial sentience and the rules that govern its creation. Cassandra discovers that even in Tanusha, the powerful entities of this bloody conflict have wound their tentacles. Many in the League and the Federation have cause to want her dead, and Cassandra’s history, inevitably, catches up with her. Cassandra finds herself at the mercy of a society whose values preclude her own right even to exist. But her presence in Tanusha reveals other fault lines, and when Federal agents attempt to assassinate the Callayan president, she finds herself thrust into the service of her former enemies, using her lethal skills to attempt to protect her former enemies from forces beyond their ability to control. As she struggles for her place and survival in a new world, Cassandra must forge new friendships with old enemies, while attempting to confront the most disturbing and deadly realities of her own existence

Sentience Under Fire

Military space adventure meets questions of artificial personhood and the search for belonging.

Come here for

  • Explore questions of artificial sentience and political power.
  • An android’s uneasy passage from enemy to ally.

Expect

  • Military danger alongside a moral awakening.
  • City politics, old enmities, and a contested right to exist.

Where it sits

Cyberpunk88%
Military Sci-Fi52%
Space Opera46%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Sci-Fi
  • Sci-Fi Adventure
  • Space Opera
Authors
Joel Shepherd
Publisher
Pyr
Published
August 1, 2006
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Artificial sentience and moral status · Belonging and survival · Friendship between former enemies
Reading lane
Sci-Fi