C. A. Higgins’s acclaimed novel <i>Lightless</i> fused suspenseful storytelling, high-caliber scientific speculation, and richly developed characters into a stunning science fiction epic. Now the dazzling <i>Supernova</i> heightens the thrills and deepens the haunting exploration of technology and humanity—and the consequences that await when the two intersect.<br><br>Once Ananke was an experimental military spacecraft. But a rogue computer virus transformed it—<i>her</i>—into something much more: a fully sentient artificial intelligence, with all the power of a god—and all the unstable emotions of a teenager.<br><br> Althea, the ship’s engineer and the last living human aboard, nearly gave her life to save Ananke from dangerous saboteurs, forging a bond as powerful as that between mother and daughter. Now she devotes herself completely to Ananke’s care. But teaching a thinking, feeling machine—perhaps the most dangerous force in the gala