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

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Hugh’s own warships came out of the Borutheda yards looking like they’d lost a battle.

as richly human as speech software could make them.

the speech software will be oh soo good very soon, probably will generate voices even better than any human can. this characterization is useless.

this fresh affront to you and yours.

There was more pride than defensiveness in that response, and he read from it that they’d at least made some headway