Messiah
โ Scribed by Swann, Andrew S
- Book ID
- 110457988
- Publisher
- DAW
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 404 KB
- Series
- Apotheosis 3
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781101477090
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
' . . . combines equal parts intrigue, mystery, adventure, religion, and world building-beautifully blended together into a hugely satisfying experience.' - SF SignalIn this final volume of the Apotheosis trilogy, the seemingly unstoppable alien Al Adam has cast his nano-cloud of destruction across the known universe. All who stand against him are turned to dust. All who accept him as their god are absorbed into his consciousness. And as solar system after solar system falls under his sway, there are only a few who old any hope of breaking Adam's stranglehold all sentient life.In the heart of the Vatican waits a 'man' from the past who might point the way to a future beyond Adam . . .The fleets surrounding the world of Bakunin will sacrifice what they must in a last-ditch effort to defeat the undefeatable . . . .And on Bakunin itself-amid a planetwide campaign of conquest-humanity's last hope may lie with Nickolai Rajasthan, a Moreau who has believed, all his life, that the human race that created his kind is already damned beyond redemption . . . ' . . . one of the most consistently reliable writers over the years, both in fantasy and science fiction . . . a series set in a far future interstellar civilization . . . Nice build up and I'll be waiting impatiently for the next.' - Don D'Ammassa, Critical Mass
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