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Cover art: Don Dixon
Blurb: “An explosive work of world building that calls to mind those of the field's most imaginative architects. Neverness is a reading experience filled with the wonder and brilliance that marks the very best in science fiction.
The world of Neverness is one of stunning complexity filled with extraordinary beings: the Alaloi, whose genes have "backmutated" to give them the appearance of Neanderthals; the Order of Pilots. which reworks the laws of time and physics to slingshot its members through dense regions of
"thickspace: the Solid State Entity, a nebula-size brain composed of moon-size biocomputers: and the leldra, a mythical race of aliens that eons ago seeded the galaxy with its DNA and initiated the evolutionary cycle.
Against this backdrop is told the story of Mallory Ringess, a headstrong novitiate of the Order of Pilots. Against all odds, he has navigated a maze of interspatial passageways to penetrate the Solid State Entity. Now he returns to his native Neverness with a stunning discovery: a discovery that could unlock the secret of immortality hidden among the Alaloi. But first Mallory will lead a perilous quest through uncharted regions of "thickspace," where ne will be asked to undergo the final challenge-to discard the last vestiges of humanity in return for mankinas salvation.”