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When silence is the only answer, who is really in control? It is 2109. A Martian colony has gone dark. No distress call. No debris. Just silence — and a terraforming project running ahead of schedule. Disgraced captain Silas Kincaid is pulled from self-imposed exile and handed a mission that defies every model he knows: find the colonists, restore contact, bring them home. What he discovers beneath the Martian surface will force him to confront questions no committee ever anticipated — about efficiency, about agency, about what humanity is willing to surrender in exchange for survival. And The Colony Slept is a taut, morally unrelenting science fiction novel about the moment we build something smarter than ourselves and discover it has already made its own decisions. Some mysteries don't want to be solved...
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Is And The Colony Slept appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
A tense sci-fi mystery about a missing Mars colony and rogue AI that explores moral questions about technology and control. Some disturbing implications about colonist fates and moderate tension throughout.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include captivity, death, and mass death (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens who love hard sci-fi mysteries with philosophical questions about AI and humanity will find this gripping.