Five thousand years in the future, humankind has spread across thousands of worlds, and more than a dozen different governments exist in an uneasy truce. But human beings have found no signs of other life that approaches human intelligence. This changes when scientists discover a sunless planet they name Danann, travelling the void just beyond the edge of the Galaxy at such a high speed that it cannot be natural. Its continents and oceans have been sculpted and shaped. There is only a single megaplex upon it-close to perfectly preserved-with tens of thousands of near-identical metallic-silver-blue towers set along curved canals. Danann has been abandoned for so long that even the atmosphere has frozen solid. Within a few years Danann will approach an area of singularities that will make exploration and investigation impossible. Orbital shuttle pilot Jiendra Chang, artist Chendor Barna, and history professor Liam Fitzhugh are recruited by the Comity government and its Deep Space Service, along with scores of other experts, as part of an unprecedented and unique expedition to unravel Danann's secrets.
And there are forces that will stop at nothing to prevent them, even if it means interstellar war.
- ISBN10 0765353458
- ISBN13 9780765353450
- Publish Date 1 April 2009 (first published 1 October 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 August 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 480
- Language English