

The Chenzeme are an enigmatic race, whose automated warships have ravaged the living worlds of the galaxy's Orion arm for millions of years.


Ahead of them loom vast, lightless clouds of dustand 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 journey: 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.
