Books like Axis by Robert Charles Wilson
Equatoria is a planet designed for humans by mysterious machine intelligences known as the Hypotheticals. Turk Findley, a former criminal, ops an aeronautical charter on the new world, while Lise Adams, an aspiring journalist, follows a lead on her missing father—an obsessed scientist who delved into the Hypotheticals' illicit life‑extension technology. At the same time, Isaac, a young boy engineered by rogue scientists to serve as a bridge between humanity and the AIs, faces his own coming‑of‑age crisis as a vast, unknown force gathers beneath the planet's surface.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Robert Charles Wilson
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