Dimensions
111 x 178 x 22mm
The Second Book Of Confluence.
The artificial world of Confluence orbits an obscure star beyond the edge of the Galaxy. It is home to ten thousand alien races raised to intelligence by the Preservers, god-like descendants of humanity. Although the last humans, the Ancients of Days, left Confluence aeons ago, the world is now riven by civil war fired by the heresies they left behind.
Yama was found as a baby on the breast of a dead woman in a white boat floating on the Great River. Leaving his childhood home for Ys, he has two ambitions: to fight against the heretics, and to solve the mystery of his birth.
But Yama is not the only one searching for his bloodline: there are those who covet his mysterious powers, and there are those for whom he is the fulfilment of ancient prophecies, a messiah for the end of time.
Paul J. McAuley is the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
