The Retro War

The war against the insectoid invaders has ended, and their bases along the edge of humanity's region of the galaxy lie in ruins. Yet peace brings its own dangers. Someone is tampering with the human timeline, and the suspects range from the mysterious Friendlies and the Sogas to the insectoids themselves, or perhaps a race no one has yet encountered. Humanity and its loyal artificial intelligences must work out who is behind the disruption before history is rewritten. This standalone novel is set in the same universe but follows new human and AI characters, while the familiar AI crews of the Rim also return. Played out across vast distances of space and time, the story treats its characters as pieces moved across a galactic board.