Rather, the aliens keep to the shadows, hiding every trace of their presence. The book's conclusion is smart and satisfying, but it is Earth-based, prosaic and very human. Gritty and dark, very much written to the X-Files sensibility. I'm looking forward to the sequel. Alex Back to the top.
Ships carry crews in cryogenic suspension on century-long trips, but arrive soon after embarking.
The Chronologic Patrol guards these wormholes to ensure that no one travels back and violates causality. When the intruders, who appear able to exceed light speed, return to re-enter the wormhole, Koffield destroys it, isolating the planet Glister. Koffield, a century in his future, is blamed for the ecological collapse of Glister and reassigned to a desk job. Koffield finds evidence that DeSilvo's techniques are plagiarized, and will eventually fail. Koffield journeys to Solace with his evidence, but when awakened he is shocked to find he has arrived more than a century late, bypassing the timeshaft.