VENTUS

Tor, New York, 2001, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-812-57635-7.  MMPB, 662 pages.  Unread copy with light edge and cover wear, sticker ghost on front wrap; pages lightly tanned.  ‘After terrifying and titanic struggles, a godlike Artificial Intelligence gone rogue has finally been destroyed.  But not before it scattered seeds of itself throughout the galaxy.  On the terraformed planet Ventus, benign AIs – the godlike Winds – which shaped and guarded its transformation, have fallen silent.  Calandria May is sent down to the surface where she quickly finds that an extension of the rogue AI, a cyborg called Armiger, has planted a strange and powerful device in a young man named Jordan Mason.  Jordan has visions.  He is desperate to find their meaning and source – desperate enough to risk awakening the Winds, perhaps invoking the power that can destroy technology to protect the environment they created.’ (from rear wrap)