Sue Burke, author of the acclaimed novel Semiosis, returns with Dual Memory, a standalone hard sf adventure novel of aspiring artists, a former refugee and a nascent AI, leading an unusual band of rebel machines.
 
Antonio Moro lost everything to the Leviathan League. Now he's alone in a city on an Arctic island fighting the ruthless, global pirates with the chance to be the artist he always wanted to be. Unfortunately, he thinks it’s a cover story for his real purpose—spying on sympathizers.

When things look bleak, he discovers an unusual ally. His new personal assistant program, Par Augustus. It’s insolent, extroverted, moody, and a not-quite-legal nascent A. I.

Together they create a secret rebellion from unlikely recruits to defend the island from ideological pirates with entitlement and guns, and capitalist pirates with entitlement and money.
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
SUE BURKE is the author of the novels Semiosis, Interference, and Immunity Index, as well as short stories, translations, and journalism. Her work has been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Locus Best First Novel Award, and she won the 2016 Alicia Gordon Award for Word Artistry in Translation. She lives surrounded by books and houseplants in Chicago.