Hardcover, 315 pages
English language
Published February 2008 by Tor.
Hardcover, 315 pages
English language
Published February 2008 by Tor.
After the Singularity, there's an artificial ring around Earth…and 90 percent of humanity is gone.
Either billions of humans are dead, or they've been transformed into something beyond human perception. Years have elapsed. Now human civilization is recovering from this trauma and has begun to once again reach into space.
Strom, Meda, Quant, Manuel, Moira are a pod—a collective entity, genetically engineered to work as one. To the world, they're Apollo Papadopulos, and they're training to become captain of the starship Consensus. Much depends on Apollo's success. But as a series of accidents threatens to destroy the pod, it begins to look as if someone hates them and is trying to kill them
But Apollo Papadopulos has a destiny beyond Earth and must survive to achieve it. And in so doing learn the true secret of the Singularity.