Stephen Baxter builds on the massive success of Proxima with a career-defining novel of big ideas...
On the planet of Per Ardua, alien artifacts were discovered-hatches that allowed humans to step across light-years of space as if they were stepping into another room. But this newfound freedom has consequences...
As humanity discovers the real nature of the universe, a terrifying truth comes to light. We all have countless pasts converging in this present-and our future is terrifyingly finite. There are minds in the universe that are billions of years old and now we are vulnerable to their plans for us...