Elizabeth Bear - Worldwired (Wetwired 3, epub) - j_ray

Give Canada's Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey an inch and she'll take a galaxy.
That's just the kind of person a world on the brink of destruction needs. The year
is 2063, and Earth has been brutalized. An asteroid flung at Toronto by the
PanChinese government has killed tens of millions and left the equivalent of a
nuclear explosion in its wake. Humanity must find another option....

Perched above the devastation in the starship Montreal, Jenny is still in the thick
of the fray. Plugged into the worldwire, connected to a brilliant AI, her mind can be
everywhere and anywhere at once. But it's focused on the mysterious alien beings right
outside her ship. Are they there to help - or destroy? With Earth a breeding ground
for treason and betrayal as governments struggle to assign blame, Jenny holds the fate
of humankind in her artificially reconstructed hand....

Title: Worldwired
Series: Wetwired
Author: Elizabeth Bear
Published November 29, 2005, by Spectra
ISBN-10: 0553587498
ISBN-13: 978-0553587494
Language: English
Length: 416 pages