Everyone knows that the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is intelligent - all black holes are. They don't have arms and legs and they are subject to the same universal rules of gravity and energies that everyone is. If you should want to commune with it you have to go to it under it's event horizon. There is no way back out, of course. When the Pleining visited they left a memento as a benign gesture; an AI that could assist lesser races with their approach to the anomaly. Many beings changed their mind once they entered the one way street called the Glory Road but no one had...

Jack has an uphill battle as he rejoins the remainder of the civilization that has matured without him. His father is known and the senior's theories are deemed valid to those he encounters as he enters the progressing world of the survivors. He must go from the brutal world of the barbarian upwards through a scientific society to meet his maker and his destiny. The thing is rumored to be on Phoebe and the rings of Saturn. An envoy from the start he must now deal with the inhuman intelligence that controls humanity to forge a destiny worthy of his fellow man - and to make his unknown father...

Jack was facing some danger, they all were, in the world they now lived in. The world after the apocalypse of the Rounder Wars. It was a hardscrabble world where the strong dominated. That's what Jack grew up with but as a young man he escaped to find the rest of the world returning to civilization governed by less stringent rules of law. He even found friends of his father's ambitions and he was soon swept away in their plans to facilitate his father's legacy. Before he knew it he was united with his half brother and sent to Saturn to contact the AI that runs this solar system. Why not, his...