Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

subjects.”

Are they sentient / aware or livestock?

Yes, the universe was built on a certain common logic that could be expressed by numbers, but those numbers themselves were an arbitrary construct that was culturally specific.

Accelerator rounds tore through her shoulder, carving the armour as though it wasn’t there, making a bone-jagged mess of the joint.

So the same shoulder that got hit earlier or the other shoup? And if it pops the armor so effectively how are her arms still attached?

Shock, she guessed, working at a mostly subconscious level to sabotage her body just when she needed it most.

Adrenalin side effects

“They’re a fence!”

No shit. They said illegal goods disposal earlier.

so precisely that even the least change might thwart… some purpose.

The Architects destroy life as travel is distorting unspace out of its purpose.

enemy was the Architects,

Architects are.the remotes.the.consciousness of.unspace uses in real space. Unspace is deformed by life or thought and it's using Architects to correct the deformation.