Hydrogen Steel Review

Hydrogen Steel features a fascinating backstory of galactic expansion by humanity. Some 150 years prior to the realtime of the narrative, Earth suddenly vanished, leaving the various extant interstellar colonies of mankind to scramble for new arrangements of survival and commerce and mutual support. In the subsequent decades, they did pretty well, building a flourishing set of disparate habitats on planets, satellites and artificial worldlets. Then, just 20 years in this scenario's past, another setback: Unseen aliens nicknamed the Silent shut down humanity's warmaking abilities in punishment for an alien genocide. Ever since, our species has lived in doubt about when, where and how the next blow will fall.

Of course, it doesn't help that "fireminds," or Planck-level-dwelling AIs, are also scheming to manipulate our race. And now our heroine has run afoul of one such disembodied intelligence, dubbed "Hydrogen Steel."

Suzette "Zette" McGee is a retired cop, a private eye with a difference. In a world where android "disposables" are regarded as semi-sentient subhumans, she has found herself to be a freak, an unprecedented fully conscious android. Imagining she's unique, she has