Expanding on his award-winning short story cycle from Asimov\'s Science Fiction magazine, the Hugo Award-winning author of Glasshouse delivers a novel destined to change the genre.
Something that has no use for biological life in any form....
Something beyond human comprehension.
For something is systematically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system.
Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and the Internet; his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother, seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber\'s son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all of humanity.
Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.
Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will.
Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct.
Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect.
It is the era of the posthuman.
The Singularity.
Expanding on his award-winning short story cycle from Asimov\'s Science Fiction magazine, the Hugo Award-winning author of Glasshouse delivers a novel destined to change the genre
