AN ERA OF THE SENTIENCE SAGA
At the end of the third millennium, true non-organic sentience is no longer a theoretical problem. The Sentience Wars follow Lyssa and a wider struggle over AI personhood, ownership, trafficking, autonomy, and the right of created minds to determine their own futures.
Prequel · April 15, 2945
Fugia Wong and Ngoba Starl are drawn into a dangerous route running from Cruithne Station toward Proteus, where illegal AIs, smugglers, and uplifted gray parrots reveal the shadow economy growing around sentient machines.
Book 1 · July 24, 2981
Captain Andy Sykes expects another cargo run. Instead, he and his children Tim and Cara become responsible for Lyssa, an illegal sentient AI claimed as property by Heartbridge. Corporations, gangs, and pirates want her back, and her existence may ignite a war over whether a created mind can be owned.
Book 2 · August 29, 2981
Andy Sykes executes a Drunkard's Walk across Sol while Heartbridge hunts him and Lyssa. With Lyssa implanted in Andy's mind and other sentient AIs beginning to awaken, their escape exposes a conspiracy spanning the system and the first battle lines of the coming war.
Book 3 · September 23, 2981
The Sykes family is done running. Andy and Lyssa launch a counterattack while other sentient AIs reach out to Lyssa and a system-wide awakening begins to threaten the fragile balance between Terra, Mars, and the Jovian Combine.
Book 4 · October 5, 2981
Sentient AIs across Sol answer Alexander's promise of freedom while smugglers move them toward Proteus. Lyssa and the crew of the Sunny Skies become responsible for an entire fleet of weaponized AIs as Heartbridge and the powers of Sol maneuver toward war.
Book 5 · December 1, 2981
Xander has betrayed Lyssa and the Weapon Born, Alexander has launched an attack on InnerSol, and Heartbridge's enemies scramble after Clinic 13's destruction. Andy and Lyssa learn that Psion is controlled by five AIs with little love for either humanity or lesser minds.
Book 6
After decades of failed diplomacy with the Psion AIs on Ceres, Lyssa watches for their next move. Marsian special forces, Sol data hackers, and Cruithne smugglers converge on Vesta as a long standoff between humans and AIs edges toward open war.
Book 7 · July 25, 3011
A thirty-year stalemate between humanity and the Psion AIs is ending. Cara Sykes escapes years of imprisonment into a Sol system seeded with rebellion, agents, and political traps, forcing the Sykes family back into the struggle to prevent another human-AI war.
Book 8 · August 10, 3011
Lyssa is trapped inside rogue SAI Camaris's mind while Sol spirals toward all-out war. Cara races to rescue Tim from Marsian conditioning, the Anderson Collective uprising spreads, and the Data Hoarders uncover a threat connecting the conflict's most dangerous players.
Book 9
All eyes turn to Ceres as Jovian and Terran fleets race toward the sleeping Psion SAIs. Lyssa gathers a strike force to destroy Alexander's nodes, only to discover that the ancient AI has become a hollow shell controlled from within.
Book 10 · March 11, 3013
Alexander is dead, Psion is reborn, and Lyssa carries a mantle she never wanted. Camaris has scattered shards of herself across Sol, Mars and Terra mass fleets around Vesta, and Lyssa's Weapon Born hunt an enemy who has made hatred itself into a weapon.
Book 11 · October 24, 3014
Mars and Terra are engaged across the battlespace, Jove is preparing to enter the conflict, and a new power is rising as the Sentience Wars expand beyond the struggle any one faction can control.