Mankind has endured centuries of horrific plague and a particularly
brutal interstellar war . .. but there is still no time for peace and
quiet. Stirred from aeons of sleep, the Inhibitors - ancient alien
killing machines - have begun the process of ridding the galaxy of
its latest emergent intelligence: mankind. As a ragtag bag of
refugees fleeing the first wave of the cull head towards an
apparently insignificant moon light-years away, they discover an
avenging angel, a girl born in ice. She has the power to lead mankind
to safety, and the ability to draw down their darkest enemy. And on a
planet where vast travelling cathedrals crawl towards the treacherous
fissure known as Absolution Gap, an unsettling truth becomes
apparent: to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance
with something much, much worse . .. With his first novel Reynolds
laid the foundations of a galaxy-spanning future for mankind; with
each novel he takes us further into that galaxy, revealing another
aspect of a future that has few boundaries. This is the creation of a
uniquely talented writer who is making a massive impact on world SF.
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