The Starry Rift

THE HUMANS ARE DEADBut their history survives. The inspiring saga of a race that dared the stars—and the darkness between. The Rift is the River Darkness between the arms of the galactic spiral, a standing wave of nothingness, a region filled only with visions and voices, innocent terror and mortal atrocity, sacrifice, tragedy, victims.. .and heroes.A teenager finds an intimate friend in the utter void.A space hermit reunites with the lost love of his youth—twice.Explorers cross impassable chasms of language, biology, and hallucination to prevent a new age of war.Adventures of passion and courage are the seeds of this epic of humanity's conquest of the galactic frontier. And the epic becomes a whisper, echoing down the rays of starlight, shimmering up through time....