If he fixes the robot, will he break his world?In a future ruled by sharia law machines are managed by debuggers, who in turn are owned by masters. Sandfly is a level 12 debugger. He is sent into Earth orbit to repair a robot-a robot that went on an experimental flight into deep space...And tore itself apart.As Sandfly digs into the mystery aboard the space station, he discovers what the bot heard around that distant star. He discovers that the bot heard...singing.As Sandfly pieces together the clues, the masters spread the trap before his feet.Everyone is racing to the same conclusion, but only one side welcomes what the singing represents.***Kerry Nietz is a refugee of the soft ware industry. He spent morethan a decade of his life fl ipping bits-fi rst as one of the principaldevelopers of the database product FoxPro for the now mythicalFox Soft ware, and then as one of Bill Gates's minions at Microsoft. He is a husband, a father, a technophile and a movie buff . Hehas one previously published book, a memoir enti tled FoxTales:Behind the Scenes at Fox Soft ware. A Star Curiously Singing is hisfi rst novel.