![]() ![]() "In the Nanotech Succession, Linda Nagata crafted one of the great sagas of galactic-scale science fiction. From Karl Schroeder, New York Times Notable author of Ventus, and of Stealing Worlds : Edges is a new entry point into the classic story world of Linda Nagata’s The Nanotech Succession. Their goal: to unravel the mystery of the Hallowed Vasties and to discover what monstrous life might have grown up among the ruins. They will be the first in centuries to confront the hazards of an inverted frontier as they venture back along the path of human migration. With a ship’s company of explorers and scientists, Urban is embarking on a voyage of re-discovery. He commands a captive alien starship fully capable of facing the dangers that lie beyond Deception Well. ![]() No one knows for sure what caused the Hallowed Vasties to fail, but a hardened adventurer named Urban intends to find out. ![]() Powerful telescopes can see only dust and debris where once there were orbital mega-structures so huge they eclipsed the light of their parent stars. All across the frontier, other worlds have succumbed to the relentless attacks of robotic alien warships, while hundreds of light years away, the core of human civilization-those star systems closest to Earth, known as the Hallowed Vasties-have all fallen to ruins. Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at the farthest reach of human expansion. ![]()
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