Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time — Providence by Max Barry - an AI battleship, a hapless crew, and black-hole spewing aliens!

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Providence by Max Barry - an AI battleship, a hapless crew, and black-hole spewing aliens!

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Four soldiers are serving a four year tour of duty as the only crew members on a super-advanced AI battleship, dispatched to fight the alien Salamanders who have been spewing black holes everywhere and killing humans in space. The ship is fully controlled by AI, and as the mission goes on our heroes feel more and more…

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