Crucible of Time: Part Two of the "Out of Time" Sequence: 6 (Chaos Chronicles)

A galaxy in perilThe story begun in The Reefs of Time continues. The time-tides caused by Karellias defenses have brought the malicious Mindaru AI out of the deep past into the present threatening Bandicut and Li-Jared who have arrived at the backwater planet--Li-Jareds homeworld--to find it on the brink of interplanetary war. Somehow they must forge a peace between Karellia and its neighboring world if the Mindaru threat is to be broken.Back on Shipworld Ik and Julie Stone risk their lives a second time to stop the Mindaru at their source: a planet near the galactic core a billion years in the past. Can Antares the beautiful humanoid who also loves Bandicut help them? What of Bria the gokat? And Amaduse the most influential librarian in Shipworld?And in the deep time of the galaxys early history by the light of a million suns the Mindaru do hideous things to an innocent species. The Mindaru plan for the altered creatures bears momentous possibilities even the deadly AI cannot predict.Time is critical. Time is elastic. And time is running out.Conclusion of the unmissable two-part Out of Time sequence begun in The Reefs of Time from Jeffrey A. Carver Nebula-nominated author of Eternitys End.