by StephenBaxter (Author)
Twenty-five thousand years in the future mankind is still locked in its twenty thousand year long war for survival with the Xeelee. Billions die every day and mankind's best soldiers are children, bred to fight and die. The war has gone well but has now stalled at the galaxy's core, the Xeelee stronghold. And as we fight what we cannot believe will be the final battle the cosnequences of a war fought in the first few nano-seconds after the big bang are coming to fruition.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 528
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 08 Sep 2005
ISBN 10: 0575076550
ISBN 13: 9780575076556
Book Overview: The second of Baxter's DESTINY'S CHILDREN series moves the story into the distant future and a grim vision of inter-galactic war.