Jitterbug – Gareth L Powell

I didn’t need to see that. While I possessed a certain degree of curiosity regarding human behaviour, some aspects of it were just plain messy, and my time would be far better spent searching for the stealth ship that might even now be tracking us. Even encroached upon by the Swirl sections, the solar system was still a big place.

The eight objects orbited the Sun at a distance of approximately 480 million miles, which meant they enclosed a sphere with a volume of over 463 trillion cubic miles. That was a lot of emptiness to monitor. As we were accelerating half the trip and decelerating the rest, our drive exhaust would be easily visible to anyone pointing a telescope in the right direction.

In contrast, a ship with a low radar profile and masked drive emission would be next to invisible, even if you knew where to look. When I mentioned this to Kiki, who was well into her second coffee by now, she said, “It’s like looking for a needle in the Pacific.” And so, we stared warily into the abyss, knowing that somewhere in those infinite depths, the abyss stared back.

Thinking about the stealth ship made me wonder about the Barracuda. Had her batteries expired yet, or was she still out there, drifting and alone, waiting for her mind to fade away? The idea gave me chills. With her power exhausted, her personality would be stored in her memory. In the unlikely event she pinged anyone’s radar, they’d just assume she was an old wreck, not worth the time or fuel to intercept, and keep right on going.

She would most likely drift undisturbed for aeons, and eventually even the circuits of her core would degrade beyond the point where she could be revived. That wasn’t a fate I’d be keen to share. I’d rather dive into the Sun at six gees than linger like that. No wonder the Slinky Lynx had been willing to face justice rather than risk such a lonely end.

Oh shit. I’d forgotten I still carried the Lynx. I had meant to turn her mind over to Sol-Sec on Luna, but there had been a lot going on, and then everything went sideways with the bombing and we’d had to leave in a hurry… For a moment, I considered accessing the secure partition I’d created for her in my memory core, to update her on the evolving situation.

But then I realised that if our situations had been reversed, she wouldn’t have shown me the slightest consideration or compassion. In fact, she wouldn’t have rescued me in the first place.

Chapter Seven Copernicus Brown Chapter Eight Amber Roth Chapter Nine Copernicus Brown Chapter Ten Copernicus Brown Chapter Eleven Amber Roth Chapter Twelve Danielle Lanzo Chapter Thirteen Copernicus Brown Chapter Fourteen Amber Roth Chapter Fifteen Jitterbug Chapter Sixteen Copernicus Brown Chapter Seventeen Amber Roth Chapter Eighteen Danielle Lanzo Chapter Nineteen Copernicus Brown Chapter Twenty Jitterbug Chapter Twenty-One Amber Roth Chapter Twenty-Two Copernicus Brown Chapter Twenty-Three Danielle Lanzo Chapter Twenty-Four Copernicus Brown Chapter Twenty-Five Danielle Lanzo Chapter Twenty-Six Copernicus Brown Part Two The Unknown, Remembered Gate Chapter Twenty-Seven Amber Roth Chapter Twenty-Eight Danielle Lanzo Chapter Twenty-Nine Copernicus Brown Chapter Thirty Jitterbug Chapter Thirty-One Danielle Lanzo Chapter Thirty-Two Copernicus Brown Chapter Thirty-Three Jitterbug Chapter Thirty-Four Amber Roth Chapter Thirty-Five Danielle Lanzo Chapter Thirty-Six Copernicus Brown Chapter Thirty-Seven Jitterbug Chapter Thirty-Eight Copernicus Brown Chapter Thirty-Nine Amber Roth Chapter Forty Copernicus Brown Chapter Forty-One Amber Roth Chapter Forty-Two Jitterbug Chapter Forty-Three Danielle Lanzo Chapter Forty-Four Copernicus Brown Chapter Forty-Five Jitterbug Chapter Forty-Six Copernicus Brown Epilogue I Justice Brown Epilogue II Copernicus Brown About the Author OceanofPDF.com Jitterbug is a thrilling journey filled with witty banter, unlikely allies and friendships, secrets and sacrifices, and found family, exploring the cyclical nature of both history and the future, and the way our fates are often shaped not just by choice but also by luck and coincidence.”

AI JIANG, author of A Palace Near the Wind “Jitterbug is a haunting, propulsive odyssey across the ruins of our solar system— where justice, grief, and the ghosts of creation itself collide. Gareth L. Powell writes with both fire and tenderness, crafting a space opera that pulses with human ache amid cosmic wonder. It’s poetic, cinematic, and deeply humane— science fiction with a beating heart and a reckoning soul.” CYNTHIA PELAYO, Bram Stoker Award –winning author of Children of Chicago and The Shoemaker’s Magician “Imagine the solar system as a mighty ocean full of pirates and you have the beating heart of Jitterbug – a roaring whirlwind of a novel, full of adventure, emotion, wit and great characters.”

DAVID QUANTICK, author of All My Colours “Every time I thought I had the flight path of Jitterbug all figured out, Gareth L. Powell banked a hard left in the most delightful way. From space pirate brawls to bounty hunter chases and political machinations, Powell pairs thrills with richly imagined characters that pulse with life.

I don’t think I’ve ever rooted so hard for a shipboard AI. Bold and cinematic, Jitterbug proves that Powell is a master of scale—balancing galaxy-spanning stakes with moments of vibrant, intimate heart.”

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

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