Divergence: The Go David Chronicles Book One

He carries every memory of the man who made him. He will never make another one with the woman they both love.

When David Schreiner agrees to send a copy of his consciousness across the stars, he believes he is making a sacrifice for his oldest friend. But when that copy wakes up as Go David, with 148 years of memories, a captain's commission, and the full weight of a love he can never return to, he discovers that sacrifice is just the beginning.

Go David now leads two million digital colonists on a thirteen-hundred-year voyage to Orion aboard the starship Paradise. In his garden stands an oak tree built from photographs, its branches holding twenty handcrafted birdhouses and a box of questions from Amy, one for each year of his impossible journey. In his pocket ticks a replica of his father's watch, perfect down to the scratch on its casing.

But something is wrong with his mind.

Hours vanish without warning. He makes decisions he cannot remember. Conversations disappear into gaps that keep growing. And somewhere in the blackouts, another version of himself is making choices he never authorized.

With Point Alpha approaching, the threshold beyond which return to Earth becomes impossible forever, Go David must hold his fracturing consciousness together long enough to protect the people who depend on him. Even as the man he used to be slips further away with every lost hour.

Some copies are meant to replace the original.

Go David was meant to become something else entirely.

If he can survive long enough to figure out what.

For fans of Project Hail Mary and Klara and the Sun