Architects of Memory by Karen Osborne, 350 pages.
Read Kara's recent review of this book here.
Ash Jackson is an Indenture working towards citizenship in the Aurora Cooperation by doing salvage work. Unfortunately she's also dying faster than she should be of a disease gotten from improper mining conditions of rocket fuel. But when her crew comes across a very powerful alien weapon it could catapult them all to citizenship, or cause the bloodiest war the universe has ever seen.
Honestly it was a bit of a struggle to get through this one for me. It's not that it was poorly written (although as Kara said a lo of the characters were pretty two-dimensional), and more that I felt like I had read almost every part of this book before. Space corporations you sell your life to, alien tech left over from an absent species, and incomprehensible alien hive minds are all almost stock tropes at this point, and I don't feel like Osborne introduced anything fresh enough to liven them up.
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