The Philip K. Dick Award-winning saga of humankind’s next five million years: "Mind-stretching science fiction at its boldest." -Orlando Sentinel And everywhere the Humans went, they found life . . . This dazzling future history, the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov’s classic Foundation saga, tells the story of Humankind-all the way to the end of the Universe itself. Here, in luminous and vivid narratives spanning five million years, are the first Poole wormholes spanning the solar system; the conquest of Human planets by Squeem; GUTships that outrace light; the back-time invasion of the Qax: the mystery and legacy of the Xeelee, and their artifacts as large as small galaxies; photino birds and Dark Matter; and the Ring, where Ghost, Human, and Xeelee contemplate the awesome end of Time."It’s old-fashioned 1950s-style science fiction . . . and it’s also lots of fun." -Cleveland Plain Dealer"Enormously impressive." -Locus