Dr. Sunya Song embarks on an interstellar journey across the Milky Way to connect with the artificial intelligence known as Baomind, a moon-sized entity that holds the key to humanitys survival amidst cosmic challenges and unforeseen threats in Hugo Awardwinning author Elizabeth Bears next epic science fiction novel. Information doesnt want to be free. Information wants to vanish without a trace. Sunya Songs job is to stop that from happening. Shes an archinformist: a specialist historian whose job usually involves sitting at a console at her university job near the Galactic Core, sorting ancient documents and restoring corrupted files. But now, the research opportunity of a lifetime has sent heralong with her teenage children and alien wifehalfway across the galaxy to preserve the data and aid in the retrieval of the archaeological find of the century: an ancient alien artificial intelligence called Baomind. As vast as a stellar system, the Baomi