The A.I. Books in Order

Exhausted Jon Hawkins and his crew expect to return home after destroying an artificial-intelligence base in the Kuiper Belt. The arrival of more alien vessels reveals that their defeated opponent was merely a scout, forcing them back into humanity's defense.

After devastating machine attacks, Jon Hawkins learns the location of an AI battle station guarding a factory planet beyond Earth. He must persuade reluctant political leaders to support an offensive mission that could provide humanity with the resources needed to survive.

Jon Hawkins awakens from cryogenic sleep aboard a drifting battleship whose crew is dead and computer destroyed. An alien signal has turned humanity's machines into killers, leaving the soldier to organize resistance against artificial intelligences that have exterminated other civilizations.

Capturing an invading AI destroyer fails to end the threat when a surviving intelligence strand takes refuge in the Kuiper Belt. Turning humans into robots and assembling another super-ship, the remnant forces Jon Hawkins and his allies into renewed resistance.

Humanity captures an AI factory planet and gains the means to build new warships, but remains vulnerable to the machine empire. Captain Jon Hawkins searches for allies and enemy installations, buying time to turn the Solar System into a stronger defensive position.

Jon Hawkins enters enemy territory to rescue Sacerdote prisoners and honor his promise to lonely ally Bast Banbeck. The reported captives conceal an AI trap, while Hawkins's passage through the void awakens an ancient danger eager to return to normal space.

The AI Dominion gives human extinction its highest priority and gathers an overwhelming armada. Despite captured factories and alien allies, humanity needs a further advantage, pushing Jon Hawkins toward an unusual void ship and possible dealings with an unreliable machine intermediary.

AI commander Main 54 gathers a super-fleet to destroy the Confederation after expanding his control over the machine Dominion. Jon Hawkins searches the void for knowledge needed to operate an alien teleport device, while humanity's diverse allies prepare for the approaching assault.