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Published Aug. 23, 2012 by Mythic Island Press LLC.

ISBN:
9780983110033

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5 stars (1 review)

Aboard Null Boundary, a giant starship thousands of years old, four survivors of an ancient alien war are making a desperate journey: Lot, son of a fiery prophet and carrier of an insidious virus that spreads a cult-like religious mania among those it infects; Urban, Lot's boyhood friend from the city of Silk, and a man in search of challenge and adventure; Clemantine, cast adrift when her world was destroyed and yearning for revenge; and Nikko, sometimes a living man, but always, the ship's disembodied mind.

They are bound into unknown territory. Ahead of them loom vast, lightless clouds of dust and gas where stars are born, and where the alien Chenzeme are believed to live. The Chenzeme are an enigmatic race, whose automated warships have ravaged the living worlds of the galaxy's Orion arm for millions of years...but why? Null Boundary's crew is driven to find out -- though …

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5 stars

The Nanotech Succession books get stronger with each installment. This final book, and the prequel to the Inverted Frontier (the first two of which I actually read before this) is by far the best. A really inventive, weird, and though provoking book. For a story that spans such stretches of both space and time, it is at its core a story of a small group of travelers learning about each other, and the messed-up shit that has happened to their home and their species.

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  • Science Fiction