TO DEFEAT THE IMMORTALS,
YOU MUST BECOME AN IMMORTAL
After the Nuclear Spasm in the 21st century, homo sapiens was extinct, save for a tiny remnant scattered in small, primitive space colonies. At first Solar Humanity had only one goal: survival. But when the battle for existence was won, humankind began moving outward in slow, multi-generation space ships, and as the millennia passed, planet-based civilizations emerged in many star systems.
In the year 27,698 A.D., to these new worlds come the Immortals, beings with strange ties to ancient Earth, beings who seem to live forever, who can travel light years in days—and who use their strange powers to control the existence of ordinary mortals.
On the planet Pentecost, a small group sets out to find and challenge the Immortals. But in the search they themselves are changed: as Immortals, they discover a new threat, not just to themselves, but to the galaxy itself.
"... one of the very best hard science fiction writers in the world." —Kim Stanley Robinson
"One of the field's most inventively readable practicing scientists... provides his customary sterling performance.... Sheffield clothes the most advanced speculations of modern science in alluring form." —The Washington Post Book World
"One of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the SF scene...." —Publishers Weekly
This book is no longer available for purchase.
Only available for download if previously purchased.
TO DEFEAT THE IMMORTALS,
YOU MUST BECOME AN IMMORTAL
After the Nuclear Spasm in the 21st century, homo sapiens was extinct, save for a tiny remnant scattered in small, primitive space colonies. At first Solar Humanity had only one goal: survival. But when the battle for existence was won, humankind began moving outward in slow, multi-generation space ships, and as the millennia passed, planet-based civilizations emerged in many star systems.
In the year 27,698 A.D., to these new worlds come the Immortals, beings with strange ties to ancient Earth, beings who seem to live forever, who can travel light years in days—and who use their strange powers to control the existence of ordinary mortals.
On the planet Pentecost, a small group sets out to find and challenge the Immortals. But in the search they themselves are changed: as Immortals, they discover a new threat, not just to themselves, but to the galaxy itself.
"... one of the very best hard science fiction writers in the world." —Kim Stanley Robinson
"One of the field's most inventively readable practicing scientists... provides his customary sterling performance.... Sheffield clothes the most advanced speculations of modern science in alluring form." —The Washington Post Book World
"One of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the SF scene...." —Publishers Weekly
This book is no longer available for purchase.
Only available for download if previously purchased.
TO DEFEAT THE IMMORTALS,
YOU MUST BECOME AN IMMORTAL
After the Nuclear Spasm in the 21st century, homo sapiens was extinct, save for a tiny remnant scattered in small, primitive space colonies. At first Solar Humanity had only one goal: survival. But when the battle for existence was won, humankind began moving outward in slow, multi-generation space ships, and as the millennia passed, planet-based civilizations emerged in many star systems.
In the year 27,698 A.D., to these new worlds come the Immortals, beings with strange ties to ancient Earth, beings who seem to live forever, who can travel light years in days—and who use their strange powers to control the existence of ordinary mortals.
On the planet Pentecost, a small group sets out to find and challenge the Immortals. But in the search they themselves are changed: as Immortals, they discover a new threat, not just to themselves, but to the galaxy itself.
"... one of the very best hard science fiction writers in the world." —Kim Stanley Robinson
"One of the field's most inventively readable practicing scientists... provides his customary sterling performance.... Sheffield clothes the most advanced speculations of modern science in alluring form." —The Washington Post Book World
"One of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the SF scene...." —Publishers Weekly
