The Godel Operation, James L. Cambias
The Godel Operation, James L. Cambias
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The Godel Operation

Author: James L. Cambias

Narrator: J.S. Arquin

Unabridged: 10 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/11/2024

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Science fiction at its sense-of-wonder best. A wild chase through the billion worlds of the Tenth Millennium in search of a mythical weapon that could save civilization—or doom it!

A DROID AND HIS BOY, ON A SEARCH FOR A LEGENDARY WEAPON

Daslakh is an AI with a problem. Its favorite human, a young man named Zee, is in love with a woman who never existed—and he will scour the Solar System to find her. But in the Tenth Millennium, a billion worlds circle the Sun—everything from terraformed planets to artificial habitats, home to a quadrillion beings.

Daslakh's nicely settled life gets more complicated when Zee helps a woman named Adya escape a gang of crooks. This gets the pair caught up in the hunt for the Godel Trigger, a legendary weapon left over from an ancient war between humans and machines—which could spell the end of civilization.

In their search, they face a criminal cat and her henchmen, a paranoid supermind with a giant laser, the greatest thief in history, and a woman who might actually be Zee's lost love. It's up to Daslakh to save civilization, keep Zee's love life on the right track—and make sure that nobody discovers the real secret of the Godel Trigger.

About James L. Cambias

James L. Cambias is a writer, game designer, and the cofounder of Zygote Games. He has been nominated for the James Tiptree Jr. Award and the 2001 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He lives in western Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Krystal on March 02, 2025

This took me a little bit to get into but once I got a handle on the world a little it ended up being a decent story. There are some Murderbot vibes here, with a robot who seems to be hiding quite a lot of secrets from his human, Zee. They have quite an interesting relationship, and it's fun to watch......more

Goodreads review by Raj on July 04, 2021

Another discovery from Scalzi's Whatever, I thoroughly enjoyed this far-future space opera about a droid and his boy, as they gallivant around a solar system turned into a Dyson Swarm and filled with trillions of inhabitants, both meat and machine. Zee is an inhabitant of a habitat in Uranus orbit wh......more

Goodreads review by Brian on June 01, 2021

This is another solid, fun book from Mr. Cambias who, with this and Akrad's World, is carving out a niche in SF coming of age adventure stories. Constantly moving forward, constantly exploring SF spaces that are puzzles in themselves, and at the same time watching the young protagonist grow up. Gode......more

Goodreads review by Henry on August 13, 2021

James L. Cambias tells the tale of Daslakh, and AI born at the end of the human/AI war two thousand years from now. Six thousand years later, shaped as a spider, it is working in an Ice mine with a young man, Zee. Zee is a bit depressed and the local mind puts an imaginary love story in Zee’s mind.......more