Title: The other end of time
Description: From back cover Tor paperback July 1997:

INTERSTELLAR WAR

Earth, 2031: Alien contact

Signals are received: a code depiction of creatures pantomiming the cataclysmic destruction of the universe.

Soon after, scientists note unusual radiation emanating from an abandoned Earth-orbital observatory.  When a group of scientists and astronauts board the observatory to investigate, they are taken prisoner.  An unsuspecting Earth has just become part of a vast interstellar war.

For the human prisoners, this minor skirmish in a vast war becomes a fantastic adventure.  The hunters become the hunted, the prey the predators, and nothing is at it seems.  The only sure thing is that the winners will rule eternity at... *The Other End of Time*
Subjects: American Science fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, science fiction, general