The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The title “The Outside” is written at the top of the cover in large orange caps. The author’s name “Ada Hoffman” is at the bottom in slightly smaller white caps. Directly above this, lower right of the cover, a quote from author Karin Tidbeck reading “A fresh and mind-bending mix of cosmic horror and space opera.” in very small orange writing. The background shows the small figure of a person in a red body suit standing on very large and twisting snake-like machinery. /end.]

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Content Warning:

• Torture
• Kidnapping
• Confinement
• Ableism
• Self-Harm
• Death
• Genocide
• Body Horror
• Child Abuse

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Summary:

Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard. The AI Gods who rule the galaxy declare her work heretical, and Yasira is abducted by their agents. Instead of simply executing her, they offer mercy – if she’ll help them hunt down a bigger target: her own mysterious, vanished mentor. With her homeworld’s fate in the balance, Yasira must choose who to trust: the gods and their ruthless post-human angels, or the rebel scientist whose unorthodox mathematics could turn her world inside out.

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Notes:

This is the first book in the The Outside series.

There is an audiobook.

There is an ebook. There is a kindle edition.

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Archivist Comments:

A space horror where AI has essentially become godlike? What an interesting and not at all weirdly relevant concept /s.

(It does actually sound very intersting though. /gen)

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