A derelict spaceship, its human crew long dead, suddenly appears on a radar screen. The only survivor, an android, tells a story that leads two old enemies to jointly undertake a momentous voyage of exploration-into The Void at the edge of the galaxy, a place of mystical significance to one side, a mere astrophysical anomaly to the other. But whether the two rival powers-one autocratic and constrained by religious dogma, the other egalitarian and bound only by the rules of commerce-can maintain their uneasy alliance remains uncertain, especially when a "silent partner" schemes to undermine...
A derelict spaceship, its human crew long dead, suddenly appears on a radar screen. The only survivor, an android, tells a story that leads two old en...
For years Spencer Mann has been preoccupied with establishing a career and finding the ideal woman. He has another obsession as well - questioning the nature of time and reality. He was coming to the conclusion that Western Civilization rested on three beliefs that were accepted as facts but were only theories, and theories that held no more merit than competing theories. The three theories: that time is linear, that absolute time and space exist, that the brain gives rise to consciousness. So, is life a journey or a reflection in a broken mirror?
For years Spencer Mann has been preoccupied with establishing a career and finding the ideal woman. He has another obsession as well - questioning the...