"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life ..."This dazzling future
history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and
exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind
-- all the way to the end of the Universe itself.
Here, in luminous and vivid narratives spanning five million years, are the
first Poole wormholes spanning the solar system; the conquest of Human planets
by Squeem; GUTships that outrace light; the back-time invasion of the Qax: the
mystery and legacy of the Xeelee, and their artifacts as large as small
galaxies; photino birds and Dark Matter; and the Ring,