Imagine if a culture banished its worst headache to the far edge of the solar system, destined to sip dregs of light and struggle for the barest living? Imagine if that existence thrived, grew, learned, and became far more than anyone ever anticipated, yearning to come back to sunlight? What if it didn’t share your moral compass in any way?

The Glittering Edge duology describes the clash of forces when a sophisticated society that has filled a solar system with flesh-and-blood life meets the near-AIs it banished about Advantage of Dark: The Glittering Advantage, Book One long ago. This is a tale of love for the outrageous and natural existence on the colony world, a complex adventure set in effective space stations,and the wish to live completely-whether you are constructed of flesh and bone or silicon and carbon fiber.

In Edge of Dark, listeners will satisfy ranger Charlie Windar and his adopted outrageous predator, who go on a planet that has been raped and restored more often than once; Nona Hall, child of power and privilege from the greatest station in the machine, the Diamond Deep; and Nona’s closest friend, a young girl called Chrystal who awakens in a robotic body.

“An intelligent, thoughtful look at what it could mean to coexist with better AIs that people ourselves possess created.”-Nancy Kress, Hugo Award-winning author