Yes. AI, not the bad generative kind used badly, but an intelligent person. And both augmented and virtual reality feature heavily in the story. Somehow avoids being cringy --- for example, most real birds are extinct. People purchase RealBirdsTM for their headsets to view them in trees and in public. Perspective switches between Asuka as an adult and as a child in training for a worldwide mission to send people into deep space and create an undying diaspora. Well-written with good pacing, very few sci-fi magic inventions (think quantum quantum quantum everything). Murder mystery aboard a virtually unstoppable and limited-in-resources spaceship.