The Maiden-Heretic of Laclathan
Saki Kayenlora has died twice already. The first time around, she was kidnapped at age five and trained to pilot her government's secret Mark 90 war machine. After a consortium of pure-software beings set their eyes on her planet, she fought them to the death in a quixotic struggle. Six years later, her digital afterlife was disrupted when TTMA, her world's ancient enemy, translated Saki and her fellow survivors back into realspace. Now, as a refugee among TTMA's bewildering constellation of independent micro-societies, can she learn to truly live for the first time?