Queen

Nicole Hammond is a Sibyl, a special human that has the ability to communicate with a strange alien ship called the Fyrantha.

However, Nicole and all other sentient creatures are caught up in a war for control between two competing factions. Now, the street-kid turned rebel leader has a plan that would restore freedom to all who have been shanghaied by the strange ship.

She just has to unite the many alien races being forced to combat for their freedom, dodge slaving war profiteers determined to capture her, and convince an AI at war with itself to trust her above all else.

Praise for Timothy Zahn

“Tim Zahn is a master of tactics and puts his own edge on complex hard-SF thrillers.” —Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times–bestselling author.

“One of the first new writers to rivet my attention so thoroughly I almost missed my train. Since then he's grown impressively, and remains one of science fiction's best practitioners of solid imagining and storytelling.” —Stanley Schmidt, Analog