The Corpus Ad Astra Adventure

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

Patrick Murphy founded Corpus Ad Astra. Now he's dead — killed aboard his own expedition — and only three were there when it happened: Karl Holzhauser, the AI engineer MOMI drafted onto the mission at the last minute; Karl's daughter Lisbeth, whom four hundred years of enemies have...

By the 25th century, death is a solved problem. A human mind is a quantum waveform, archived and poured into a fresh cloned body whenever the old one wears out — and eighty billion deathless souls now crowd a single exhausted Earth.

Brigadier General Greg Body has a way out: a red dwarf called L 98-59, thirty-five light-years away, with a world...