Michelle Campion is a second-generation astronaut, though her father's unexplained disappearance in space makes their family more infamous than heroic. She's hoping to change that when she signs on as first mate for the colony ship Ragtime. But when the ship nears its destination 10 years later and she wakes up from stasis, she finds that the AI isn't working correctly and there are several prospective colonists who have been murdered while everyone else slept. As the only human crew member, it's up to Michelle to sort out the mystery before the Ragtime docks.
Thompson attempts to put a lot of elements into this novel, and I'm not quite sure how well they meld together. There are alien species that can't really be explained in proper human languages; there's a rogue AI situation; there are billionaires in space; and there's a locked-room (locked-spaceship?) murder mystery... the pieces are all interesting and remind me of other things, but instead of going together cohesively, it made me want to consume those other media. It was OK, but not great.
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