Reality Dysfunction, The : Emergence and Expansion

Densely packed with detailed world-building, a host of convincing characters, a jet-propelled pace and an intricately coiled, multifaceted plot.Project your mind into the 27th century. Humanity is split between Adamists, "normals" who faithfully retain their God-given biological heritage, and Edenists, humans telepathically gene-linked to their sentient, bio-engineered spaceships and habitats. Far out in space, one of these custom-grown "biteks" orbits above the greatest scientific mystery ever known: the Ruin Ring, a halo of debris composed entirely of alien habitats pulverized 2,500 years ago.What could have caused such destruction? A data chip from this long-extinct race, the Laymil, holds the only clue to the phenomenon--a force beyond human comprehension, a horror that mocks both science and faith. The Laymil called it "the Reality Dysfunction"--a rip in the fabric of spacetime. But to the worlds trapped in its path, they might as well have called it Hell.