Meredith Ryan Taylor

Aiya Seven Meredith Ryan Taylor

Explored and exploited, twenty-second century Earth teems with drones and phones. JJ should know, having helped to set up cell towers in some of the most remote corners of the globe. The solo mountain man lifestyle he longs for seems impossible to achieve until ... the dream job, the big one, the chance JJ has been waiting for to get away from it all ... nearly 40 light-years away from it all ... a solo mission to Trappist-1e as a colonial surveyor. After spending forty years in stasis, JJ wakes to find that the business-like AI he trained with for this mission has had plenty of time to develop a complete set of more colorful personalities. Aiya Seven is vibrant, chatty, concerned and suffers from a self-imposed Florence Nightingale syndrome. To make things worse, he finds the time he spent asleep was not uneventful ... Meteorites, ship-eating alien lifeforms, and mysterious inter-dimensional beings turn out to be the least of his troubles.