Legacy (Version 2)

The machines woke after ten thousand years. No one knows why. No one knows how. But they're moving now, and whatever intelligence built them is long gone. Trigger Argee was the closest thing Holati Tate had to a partner. When he vanished after discovering the ancient machines, she didn't believe the official stories. Now she's hunting for him across a galaxy that's suddenly very interested in what she knows. Trigger is brilliant, beautiful, and trained in every martial art the known worlds have to offer. Several factions would pay dearly for her, dead or alive. But the deeper she digs into the mystery of the machines and the vanished Masters who built them, the more she's beginning to suspect that the Old Galaxy's exile of the plasmoids wasn't paranoia. It was mercy. James H. Schmitz writes Trigger Argee as a woman who never waits to be rescued - she takes what she wants. This is 1960s science fiction at its most propulsive, with a mystery that builds genuine dread and a protagonist who still feels radical today.