Name That Book

Deleted user 8 November 2014 16:07:22

Possibly an Octavia Butler short story, but I can't find anything on Google.

Woman alone on a spacecraft, the purpose of which is to head off in an advance scouting mission and plant waypoints so the fleet behind can jump through wormholes.

She finds she's not alone and has a clone or a child or something onboard. There's also a subplot about a giant planet-sized alien (think it's described as looking like a giant bubble) that manages to convince them to plant a waypoint next to another planet-sized alien so the wormhole destroys it.

It's either a short or a novella, not a full novel.

Deleted user 8 November 2014 16:07:44

Enemy Mine: The Novel
Deleted user 8 November 2014 17:34:44

Found it. The Island by Peter Watts.

THANKS FOR NOTHING EG.
Deleted user 8 November 2014 17:48:34

Kittens in the Kitchen.

Deleted user 8 November 2014 18:01:43

I have a similar one, actually - kid's comic/graphic novel/whatever about Vlad the Impaler (him as a vampire). Art style was incredibly loose and scribbly, and it was all sorts of messed up (at least for a kids book).

Wesbish 8 Nov 2014 21:33:04 48 posts
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@Deckard1 The night watch trilogy?? Although they were only around '98/99
jamievilla 8 Nov 2014 21:39:06 847 posts
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Deckard in reading Twilight shocker.
Dirtbox 9 Nov 2014 00:55:21 92,595 posts
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