Synopsis: Adapted from the back cover of the Avon Eos first edition: "At Millennium's end, the Earth was poisoned beyond repair. The intelligence that survived sent ships out into the solar system in search of the raw materials necessary to stave off civilization's collapse and for Earthlike planets to colonize. The year is 2083, No suitable worlds have been found. The Earth cannot sustain life for much longer. The fate of a dying race rests with a new God. The story combines theoretical physics and a savage, stinging view of human nature as it rockets two renegade family units - a microcosm of the self-destructive society they have fled - into the heart of a mysterious alien culture in humanity's final moments. Here an entity has been created for the purpose of preserving all life, but it must absorb the past, present, and future of the universe to do so. In a distant realm of last desperate hope - with a relentlessly expanding savior/destroyer omnipresent in time - the flawed and fragile representatives of a near-dead world are searching for the key to humankind's survival. But it may already be too late - and it may always have been."