Winner of an award for SciFi Action, this novel is eminently qualified for your attention. In the near future, the first practical faster-than-light spacecraft is developed. Soon after, USS Resolute is sent on her first voyage into interstellar space. Aboard this superluminal research vessel, Captain Rick Corbett and his first officer, a fully sentient AI known as Alice, face challenges and mysteries previously unknown to mankind. After the inclusion of a replicant clone of Alice prior to their departure, tensions begin to rise and conflict threatens to tear the team apart. Can they make their way to Alpha Centauri, if what awaits them there expands the human experience beyond anything they thought might be revealed.