


Ahead of them loom vast, lightless clouds of dust and gas where stars are born, and where the alien Chenzeme are believed to live.

Aboard Null Boundary, a giant starship thousands of years old, four survivors of an ancient alien war are making a desperate Lot, son of a fiery prophet and carrier of an insidious virus that spreads a cult-like religious mania among those it infects Urban, Lot’s boyhood friend from the city of Silk, and a man in search of challenge and adventure Clemantine, cast adrift when her world was destroyed and yearning for revenge and Nikko, sometimes a living man, but always, the ship’s disembodied mind.They are bound into unknown territory.
