the cover of Providence by Max Barry which is an illustration of the letters spelling the title and author's name sort of floating in a gloopy liquid. In the center of that liquid is a person (one assumes, you can't see their features) in a spacesuit seen from the shoulders up.

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   Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 02:10:41 JST Jessamyn

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   Book 4: Providence. I've liked Barry's other books and I liked this one in a different way. It's a straight up long-haul forever-war sort of story about a crew of four flawed people on a four-year tour of deep space with a mission to kill a seemingly endless supply of one type of alien creatures. Oh and their ship is run by an AI so sophisticated that the humans are really only there for PR purposes, and maybe to help the AI company sell more AI. Written in 2020 but still feels fresh.