John C. Wright shifts genres from space opera to high fantasy in this first of a projected two-volume saga. Galen Waylock belongs to the House of Everness, a family of magicians who guard the border between the waking, real world and ...

Continuing from Count to a Trillion, Menelaus Illation Montrose—Texas gunslinger, idealist, and posthuman genius—has gone into cryo-suspension following the discovery that, in 8,000 years, a powerful alien intelligence will reach ...

The year is 10,515 AD. The Hyades Armada, traveling at near lightspeed, will reach Earth in just four centuries to assess humanity's value as slaves. For the last 8,000 years, two opposing factions have labored to meet the alien threa...