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At the edge of the beyond
The systems that keep you alive were never built to be understood.
A global health network that has control over life and death. A discovery in cancer biology that works, and then never stops. A deep-space mission of exploration that becomes something no one saw coming. A research station orbiting a black hole, where the anomalies in the log are starting to look less like malfunctions and more like sentences.
Seven stories of hard science fiction, each touching on the limits of our understanding. The surveillance infrastructure already exists in prototype. The microRNA questions are open problems that people are working on right now. The fuzzball at the centre of the closing novella is a serious proposal in theoretical physics, not a metaphor.
What connects the stories is not a setting but a preoccupation: What happens when a system grows too large, or too fast, or too autonomous for anyone inside it to say what it is actually doing? Not malice, and not malfunction. Just rules we only partly understand, running correctly, indifferent to whether anyone was ready for them.
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