The Massey brothers have salvaged some strange finds in the depths of space—but nothing like the enormous, silent ship drifting at the edge of known territory. No warmth, no life signs, just a relic from a war long forgotten… until it suddenly powers on.
From the depths of space, the godlike Ulltrians—long thought extinct—have returned, bringing war and destruction to every star system. Humanity teeters on the brink of annihilation, and the galaxy’s survival rests in the hands of an elite few.
On the final day of Atlantis, as the legendary city sinks beneath the waves, its sons and daughters set sail toward the stars, carrying the last hopes of a doomed civilization.
In this Hugo and Nebula Award–winning science fiction classic, a soldier confronts the staggering cost of interstellar war against a relentless alien enemy.
As captain of the Marathon, a patchwork ship crewed by aliens and androids eking out a living on the edges of settled space, Adam already has enough problems without getting involved with his own species.
When the UEF Scimitar is sent to rescue an archaeologist from a long-abandoned Terran colony, Officer Hayden Kaine expects a routine mission. Instead, a catastrophic accident strands the ship in a quarantined star system, and survival quickly becomes the crew’s only priority.
