SAILING BRIGHT ETERNITY

The final chapter of humanity's future has begun and one man has been alive through it all: Nigel Walmsley, an ancient scientist from the distant past marooned inside an anomaly of time and space. From here he recalls the ingenious but desperate struggle against the mechs - a vast and violent artificial intelligence dedicated to the total destruction of the human race - and the enigmatic contact with the Old Ones. The Old Ones are life-forms bigger than the stars and guard the center of the galaxy - a voracious black hole calied the Eater of All Things. Close by, in a strange space-time continuum called the Esty, the survivors of humanity's ravaged planets have been forced to take refuge - and make a final stand against their ruthless executioners. Three men hold the key to human survival - three men whose link is Nigel Walmsley: Toby Bishop, a young warrior-in-training, a fugitive from the planet Snowglade and survivor of the renegade ship Argo; Killeen Bishop, Toby's father, leader of the Snowglade survivors and captain of the ship that dared to plunge into the Galactic Center; and Killeen's own father, a man thought dead who has been mysteriously saved from oblivion. As the mechs carve a path of calamity through the Esty, it soon becomes apparent that these three men - three generations in a family of voyagers - are their targets. But why? And how can Toby, his father, and his grandfather survive long enough to unleash the lethal secret they unknowingly carry against their relentless pursuers?