Description: Gregory Benford is an eminent physicist, multiple award-winning author, and recipient of the United Nations Prize for Literature. Now in a new, special edition, here is the concluding volume of his classic Galactic Center series, a triumph of breathtaking imagination and human drama set against an immeasurable tapestry of space, time, and evolution. Millennia of conflict between humans and mechs have driven the human race to near-extinction. Now as the fierce AI mechs begin their final assault on mankind, it soon becomes apparent that three men-three generations in a family of voyagers-are their targets. Toby Bishop, his father, Killeen Bishop, and his grandfather, Nigel Walmsley, each carry a piece of the lethal secret that can destroy their enemies. But hunted through space and time by relentless assassins, they have no idea that they possess the only weapon that can save humanity...