Fool's War

Overview:

• Title: Fool's War
• Author: Sarah Zettel
• Year: 1997
• Type: Novel

Synopsis:

The Pasadena is a mail-packet ship, time-shared by two owners who alternate missions: the devout Muslim Al Shei, and her database hacker brother-in-law. While on a data-freight mission, Al Shei finds herself with a crew preoccupied by artificial intelligence: her comm chief Lipinksi has a deep fear and hatred for AI's as one of the few survivors of the rogue AI which devistated Kerensk; the new pilot Jemina Yerusha is a Freer who believes that rogue AIs form when a simple AI program captures a human soul; Master Fool Evelyn Dobbs is a Fools Guild member who has a secret agenda concerning rogue AIs; and Al Shei's brother-in-law, wanted by authorities concerning his last mission, may have accidentally left something dangerous in the data hold.

Awards:

• 1998. Fool's War Locus Poll, Best SF Novel (Nomination)

Editions/Publications:

• 1997. Fool's War (1997, Sarah Zettel Warner Aspect, ISBN-10: 0446602930, $5.99, 464 pages, Paperback, Novel)
• 1997. Fool's War (1997, Sarah Zettel SFBC, Catalog ID: #15461, $9.98, 455 pages, Hardcover, Novel)

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