Edengris Falco is the last lattice pilot alive. A four-armed Cressian freight captain, he was one of few that survived the death of his old world — until the Lonine Labor Party attacked the Consortium of Yorg's pilot ceremony and killed every other Cressian who could navigate the lattice, the ancient corridors between star systems. Now every faction in the galaxy wants what's coded in his DNA. The Consortium wants to rebuild. The Lonine want him erased. And Edengris doesn't trust any of them.

His only ally is Dot.Six, a synthetic AI partner who was built to serve by a mysterious galactic power called the Aninoms. Together they'll run the lattice, dodge assassins, and unravel a conspiracy that may reach back to the destruction of the old Cressian World. The Dark Vice is a space opera novella about duty at the edge of exploration, survival as defiance, and the cost of being something truly unique.

By Alex Robnett