For the past four years, Jalon has been taking care of a deteriorating junkyard at the edge of Known Space, finding he has more in common with the broken parts than he has with the visitors who come looking for them. He is a damaged Archive, a human transformed into a living database, unable to retrieve much of anything due to a daring escape where all Archives were decommissioned. Believing his identity safely hidden from everyone, he is shocked when he is kidnapped for information he cannot provide. The kidnapping forces him to confront his actions that contributed to an active genocide. Does he have the key to reverse it? His kidnappers believe so. And the beings who tried to destroy him four years ago want to stop him from providing it at any cost.
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