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The Shapes of Their Hearts

On Eden, the Seeking Children see God in the Memoriant, the braintaped copy of their prophet's consciousness that has become its own AI. The Children seek to spread its revelation, by violence if necessary; the rest of human space does its best to keep the Memoriant confined to its home system. But when Anton Tso is commissioned to find and bring a copy of of the Memoriant off-world, he finds himself caught up in Eden's complex politics - and in the Memoriant's own inscrutable desires.

Reviews

Locus

"Scott continues to set her far-future suspense stories in lived-in worlds featuring not just nifty techstuff and exotic social systems but class and cultural divisions that provide psychological tensions to parallel those generated by the plot machineries.... There is a sense that adventures don't happen for their own sakes, but grow out of desire and necessity, and that when objectives are reached and McGuffins are retrieved, there are still questions to settle and dreams to pursue.... It's not happily ever after... but it's somehow more satisfying than a sequel."

Library Journal

"combines the taut action of an sf thriller with the cerebral excitemen of cyber-metaphysics."

Booklist

"a story full of deviousness and of characters for whom delicate subterfuge is a way of life. It slowly unfolds, revealing with each new development a situation more complex and intriguing than the last one."

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