Some Machine: A Carson Gray Book

by Aaron Cowan

A year of war. A year of war against his mother, Carson Gray is drawn back into the growing and complicated fight to save Monitor, the custodian AI of the United Colonies. Sandra Gray’s forces are on the move, determined to destroy Monitor, destroy all Artificial Intelligence and they have dangerous new allies that are willing to fight a kind of war that not even Sandra Gray would visit on the innocent citizens of the Colonies.

Carson must expand his understanding of his mother, her motivations and how far she is willing to go to help stop what is coming. Along the way, he’ll have new allies, the free people of the Unaligned and outer systems. Long taken to piracy, with little love for the United Colonies, the war comes for them just the same, dragging them into a fight that young captains like August Riordan and Kadin Patera did not want to fight.

Carson will learn that he never really knew his mother. He never understood her fanaticism. He can only hope to learn what she plans to do before it kills him. Kills millions.

811 pages, Paperback

Published July 19, 2023

Reviews

[Spurius Lartius · Rating 5 out of 5]

9/10 This is some of the best military sci-fi I've ever read. Cowen doesn't have a formal editor so there are minor grammatical and continuity issues as with the previous book. If he had a professional editor this would be among the best of the best in this genre. I recommend trying to grit your teeth through the issues because this book is well worth it. This book follows in the best traditions of Heinlein by handling significant moral and philosophical problems through the lens of the soldier on the frontline, mixed with best in class action writing.

[Hayes Neukom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic book for sci-fi, gun fights, etc.