Product Overview

Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's
potential is determined by its location in space - from superintelligent
entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths,
where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what
strange force partitioned space into these 'zones of thought', but when the
warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artefact as a weapon, they
unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and
enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing the threat, a family
of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines - an
alien race with a harsh medieval culture - and used as pawns in a ruthless
power struggle. A rescue party, not entirely composed of humans, must free the
children - and retrieve a secret that may save the rest of interstellar
civilization. Read more