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Binary Stars
Paperback
Series: Tales from the Cassidyverse, Book 6
RomanceScience FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: AD Astra Science Fiction & Fantasy
Published: Nov 13 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
She was built to understand the universe. Nobody taught her how to understand her heart.
As the Alpha AI aboard the starship Enterprise, Minerva has mastered logic, strategy, and the countless demands of keeping a ship and its crew alive. Emotions, however, remain considerably more difficult to navigate.
Enter Hecate.
A younger AI with bubblegum-pink hair, boundless enthusiasm, and absolutely no respect for Minerva's carefully ordered existence, Hecate has decided that the formidable Alpha needs a friend.
Minerva disagrees.
Unfortunately for Minerva, Hecate has never considered disagreement a particularly compelling obstacle.
Across more than a century, an unlikely friendship challenges everything Minerva believes she understands about identity, belonging, and love. And as her feelings for Aiyana Cassidy grow beyond anything her calculations can comfortably explain, Minerva faces a question no amount of processing power can answer.
What does it mean to open your heart when you're still learning what having one means?
Binary Stars is a character-driven Cassidyverse science fiction novella about two extraordinary artificial intelligences, an improbable friendship, and the courage to become more fully yourself.
EXCLUSIVE ILLUSTRATED PAPERBACK EDITION
Experience Minerva and Hecate's journey in a new way with 20 original grayscale illustrations, created specifically for this print edition. From their first encounter to the moments that change their lives forever, these images bring the characters, their relationships, and their evolving world to life.
These illustrations are exclusive to the paperback and are not included in the ebook edition.
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