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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
Copyright © Ian Douglas 2014
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Source ISBN: 9780007483778
Ebook Edition © May 2014 ISBN: 9780007483785
Version: 2016-11-17
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Dedication
As always,
throughout the multiverse,
worlds without end,
for Brea
Contents
Prologue
They called themselves the Consciousness.
Following the faint but telltale leakage of gravity from one universe to another, they’d detected the circle of whirling masses as they opened a passageway between the ’branes, emerging in a four-dimensional space subtly different from other, known realities. They were working now to create a permanent gateway between universes, creating girders and connectors spanning light years, coaxing solid light from the vacuum energy itself, anchoring suns, mining starcores, imbedding the structural components within the fabric of spacetime itself.
At this point, the scope of the Consciousness spanned a number of universes. A metamind, a hive mentality, it was an emergent epiphenomenon arising from the interplay of some hundreds of quadrillions of individual minds,