Dr. Halsey's Journal by Eric S. Nylund

A compact, candid set of journal entries by the scientist behind the clandestine Spartan-II program, tracing her clinical rationales and the private guilt beneath them as she defends the abduction and augmentation of children into super-soldiers, reflects on her fraught, quasi‑maternal relationships with the Spartans—especially the one who became her lodestar—and admits to creating an AI patterned on her own mind; the narrative lays bare the moral compromises, secrecy, and consequences that accompanied humanity’s desperate struggle against an existential alien threat.