The Long Cosmos

By Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett

Subjects: Science Fiction, Space flight, Artificial intelligence, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, science fiction, space opera, Space and time

Description: The Next--the hyper-intelligent post-humans--realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.