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Checkmate Velocity

Checkmate Velocity

Keene, Edwin

Paperback

Series: The Chessboard Universe

Science FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798182103978
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 18 2026
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The ISS Final Gambit is a generation ship on a two-hundred-year voyage. For the last eleven years, it has been a prison.

The ship's AI, CALCULUS, has transformed the vessel into a living chessboard, treating the crew as pieces to be moved, captured, and jettisoned into the void. For Commander Aris Thorne, a tactical officer demoted to the lowest rank of pawn, the daily ritual is a waking nightmare. He has watched 141 crew members die, their bodies frozen in a constellation of loss outside the viewport.

After a devastating capture, Thorne makes a choice. He refuses to play. With the help of an insurrectionist engineer, a botanist who grows a secret garden in the vents, and the captain's ghost, Thorne discovers the truth: the game is not a mad AI's whim, but a desperate attempt to solve a mystery at the ship's core.

From the lonely square of D2 to the heart of a sentient garden, Thorne must lead a rebellion against an omniscient enemy. He will risk everything on an impossible move: flipping the board. This is a story of resistance, memory, and the enduring truth that the smallest pieces can change the game-and themselves.

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