Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte’s missing daughter. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. “An all-time genre classic.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the Prime Original series. The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A.
