The Half-Blood Principle

The artificial intelligence running a space battleship loses a battle in orbit against a backward planet. Fleeing capture, the cybernetic mind slips into the only available infonet, abandoning its carrier. Meanwhile, in one of the planet’s cities, a teenager named Faust can’t understand why the project he’s been working on for a whole month doesn’t work. The hard-drive array is faulty, and the screen shows some strange code. What could it mean?