The novel “The Godel Operation” by James L. Cambias was published for the first time in 2021. It’s the first book in The Billion Worlds series.

Daslakh notices that his human coworker Zee is having some problems that have caused a sharp drop in his work performance. He asks God for help, meaning the artificial superintelligence that runs Raba, their habitat. The result is that Zee is suddenly convinced that he must go in search of Kusti Sendoa, the great love he had lost years before for his own fault. Daslakh discovers that the story was implanted in Zee’s mind and is forced to accompany him.

Arriving in the Uranus system, Daslakh and Zee come across Adya, a woman in danger due to a couple of shady individuals. Zee manages to save her but he and Daslakh are projected into space, where they are rescued by a service spacecraft. When they discover that the spacecraft is piloted by a woman named Kusti Sendoa, Zee is delighted while Daslakh becomes very suspicious.