Eternity's mind

ISBN: 9780765369369 (paperback) :
Physical Description: print regular print 594 pages ; 18 cm
Edition: First mass market edition.
Publisher: New York : Tor, 2017.
Copyright: &copy;2016.

Anderson, Kevin J. 1962- (author.).

Summary: Two decades after a war that nearly destroyed the cosmos, the new Confederation has restore peace and profitable commerce among the worlds of the Spiral Arm. But now, the malevolent Klikiss robots have found an ally in the near-omnipotent Shana Rei, an ancient race dedicated to chaos, and the two forces have set out to destroy all sentient life in the universe. All across the galaxy, space is tearing apart, and the links between the gateways that make interstellar travel possible are breaking down. Desperate for fuel to power a last defense against this terrible enemy, industrialist Lee Iswander has been extracting ekti - the blood of the cosmos - from mysterious giant nodules found floating in empty space, draining them dry by the thousands. But in doing so, he could be weakening the only ally that civilization may have against the unrelenting darkness...