Review: The Killing Machine
" Despite your best intentions, I have been created for one purpose ... as a weapon to annihilate Earth's enemies." 2073: Deep within the Mariana Trench a large anomalous object is discovered. Believed to be at least as old as the Earth itself, it is biochemically exotic and emits pulses of light that spell out coded mathematical data. It also appears to exist in a bizarre quantum state; simultaneously 'there' and 'not there'... Is this the origin of all life on Earth... possibly all life in the universe? Dubbed 'the Hand of God' by the media, speculation regarding its nature runs wild and a quasi-religious cult soon sprouts up claiming it to be the manifestation of the divine. Meanwhile, researchers decode the strange emissions, discovering co-ordinates for a region of space near Jupiter's moon Ganymede that appears to act like a miniature black hole. In 2078 the spacecraft N'Jal is sent to investigate and passes through the spaceti