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Cascade Failure

by L. M. Sagas

A Guild crew confronts the cost of corporate power

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A Guild crew confronts the cost of corporate power

In the Spiral, influence is divided among the Trust, the Union, and the Guild, which tries to keep the competing powers in check. Jal, branded a Guild deserter, ends up aboard the Ambit, a Guild ship run by an AI and staffed by an unconventional crew. A distress call to an abandoned planet leads them to a mass grave and a programmer who knows what happened there. The discovery points toward a broader threat tied to the Trust’s plans. The setup brings spacefaring adventure together with questions of labor, corporate control, and what it means to be human, while the ship’s crew forms the story’s central ensemble.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking science-fiction action and adventure in a spacefaring setting.
  • Readers interested in stories about labor, corporate power, and competing institutions.
  • Readers who enjoy ensemble casts and human–AI themes.

Themes

Corporate power and laborInstitutional conflictHumanity and artificial intelligenceFound family and crew dynamics

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Book overview

L. M. Sagas's debut, Cascade Failure, is a high-octane, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes's Divide series with Firefly. It features a fierce, messy, chaotic space family, vibrant worlds, and an exploration of the many ways to be--and not to be--human.

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There are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust versus the Union's labor's leverage. Between them the Guild tries to keep everyone's hands above the table. It ain't easy.

Branded a Guild deserter, Jal "accidentally" lands a ride on a Guild ship. Helmed by an AI, with a ship's engineer/medic who doesn't see much of a difference between the two jobs, and a "don't make me shoot you" XO, the Guild crew of the Ambit is a little . . . different.

They're also in over their heads. Responding to a distress call from an abandoned planet, they find a mass grave, and a live programmer who knows how it happened. The Trust has plans. This isn't the first dead planet, and it's not going to be the last.

Unless the crew of the Ambit can stop it.

Ambit's Run series
Cascade Failure

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