Kristin Landon

The Cold Minds

The Cold Minds book cover

After Earth's destruction by ruthless machine intelligences known as the Cold Minds, the remnants of the human race fled to the Hidden Worlds. Now, after six centuries of safety, the horrors of the past have returned to finish the extermination.

Renegade jump pilot Iain sen Paolo and Linnea Kiaho know that the Cold Minds have found humanity again. To fight back, they need to recruit jump pilots. But the secretive Pilot Masters guard their knowledge—and their ships—jealously. They refuse to admit that the Cold Minds have returned or that anyone not of their number could possess the ability to fly a jump ship. Now, Linnea must prove the Pilot Masters wrong.

On the run and desperately searching for allies to oppose the Cold Minds, Linnea and Iain face near-impossible odds. But they know that somehow, some way, they must succeed—or humanity itself will become extinct.…



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Reviews

"Many of the themes and treatments that I enjoyed when I was first reading SF are no longer in style, so it's always a treat when someone goes back to the classics.… The antipathy between the organic and inorganic is always fertile ground for fiction."

Don D'Ammassa, Critical Mass



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Photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.