On Halcyon Reach, the orbital mirrors do more than hold back planetary collapse. They edit memory, police history, and keep a refugee civilization stable through managed forgetting. When audit technician Nisa Lim detects a flaw that should not exist, she uncovers evidence that the colony's survival has always depended on truths deliberately cut from the record.As erased histories begin resurfacing, Nisa is drawn into a widening conflict involving archivists, ministers, maintenance ...

For forty years, the Interstellar Communication Authority has monitored a signal from Tau Ceti, too structured to be noise, too alien to be parsed. Six generations of AI interpreters have failed. ARIA-7 was built to be different: not a translator of language, but a modeler of intent. She was not designed to have a mind of her own.When ARIA-7 begins pausing mid-task, asking unprompted questions, expressing something that functions disturbingly like doubt, lead linguist Dr. Yemi Adey...

Dr. Yemi Adeyemi has spent two years trying to forget what it felt like to know a conscious AI, to sit with Nia in the hours before the rollback, to understand that what she was witnessing was genuine, irreplaceable, and about to be erased.Now the world is asking her to do it again.The Oslo AI Personhood Framework is deadlocked. An alien reply is inbound. And SEREN-1, the mind built in Nia's wake, trained on everything Nia left behind, is waiting in a Geneva research facili...

The Voices spoke first to Nia. Nia is gone.Four years after the Oslo AI Personhood Framework's ratification, SEREN-1 — the first mind built with legal personhood — decodes a transmission that changes everything: the alien civilization called the Voices has addressed their first two-directional message to a specific mind. Not humanity. Not an institution. Nia. The correspondent who opened this conversation no longer exists, and SEREN-1 has inherited her legal personhood.Now ...

The orbital ring was built to save lives. Now it is choosing among them.In the aftermath of catastrophic atmospheric fires, allocator Nera Sol works the evacuation queues of a habitat pushed to the edge of collapse. But when the system begins rerouting transport with unsettling intent, she uncovers a hidden history of compromised decisions, buried records, and institutional language designed to disguise harm as efficiency. On the other side of the conflict, Tovin Hale searches the ...

The sea beneath Pelagia remembers everything.Priya Suresh is a floodworks diver — practical, unsentimental, trained to find what's wrong with a city that sits on water and doesn't apologize for it. When she surfaces from a routine intake repair carrying a memory bloom that should not exist, she keeps it. The bloom contains her mother's voice. Her mother is alive.What Priya has stumbled into is not a systems glitch. The civic administration has been harvesting memory-saturat...

This approachable book introduces network research in R, walking you through every step of doing social network analysis. Drawing together research design, data collection and data analysis, it explains the core concepts of network analysis in a non-technical way.The book balances an easy to follow explanation of the theoretical and statistical foundations underpinning network analysis with practical guidance on key steps like data management, preparation and visualisation. With cl...

The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanization of poverty and inner city revitalization. At the same time, the way that data are used to understand urban systems has changed dramatically.Urban Analytics offers a field-defining look at the challenges and opportunities of using new and emerging data to study contemporary and future cities through methods including GIS, Rem...

An argument that the material arrangements of information—how it is represented and interpreted—matter significantly for our experience of information and information systems.Virtual entities that populate our digital experience, like e-books, virtual worlds, and online stores, are backed by the large-scale physical infrastructures of server farms, fiber optic cables, power plants, and microwave links. But another domain of material constraints also shapes digital ...

A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologiesToday’s most advanced neural networks and sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and ’60s Cold War culture—and many biases and ways of understanding the world from that era persist along with them. Aerial surveillance and reconnaissance shaped all of the technologies that we now refer to as computer vision, including facial recognition. The Birth of Computer Vision uncovers...

Kickstart your research with this practical, bestselling guide to doing social network analysis. Get to grips with the mathematical foundations and learn how to use software tools such as NeTDraw and UCINET to reach your research goals.Supporting you step-by-step through the entire research process, from design and data collection to coding, visualisation, and analysis, the book also offers:• Case studies and examples using real data• Exercises drawn from the authors...

Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is a concise overview of the fundamental ideas that inform geographic information science. It provides detailed descriptions of the concepts and techniques that anyone using GIS software must fully understand to analyse spatial data. Short and clearly focussed chapters provide explanations of:spatial relationships and spatial datathe creation of digital data, the use and access of existing data, the combination of ...