Singularity

Singularity
Ian Douglas

The third book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendenceThere is an unseen power in the universe—a terrible force that was dominating the galaxy tens of thousands of years before the warlike Sh'daar were even aware of the existence of Sol and its planets.As humankind approaches the Singularity, when transcendence will be achieved through technology, contact will be made.In the wake of the near destruction of the solar system, the political powers on Earth seek a separate peace with an inscrutable alien life form that no one has ever seen. But Admiral Alexander Koenig, the hero of Alphekka, has gone rogue, launching his fabled battlegroup beyond the boundaries of Human Space against all orders. With Confederation warships in hot pursuit, Koenig is taking the war for humankind’s survival directly to a mysterious omnipotent enemy.

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For Deb,whose science is about as hard as it comes

INTO THE JAWS OF A SAVAGE GOD

Gray was sliding down a gravity well, as though he were being funneled straight toward the wildly rotating cylinder ahead.

Somehow, he realized, the Sh’daar had compressed a medium-sized star into a hollow cylinder a kilometer across and twenty long. Something didn’t add up. Beings that could create this thing weren’t merely good magicians. They were gods, or the closest thing to gods mere humans could imagine.

Gray’s fighter, falling free, was accelerating, moving faster and faster as the maw of the cylinder yawned ahead, the opening empty and utterly lightless.

Fifty more seconds, at this rate, and he would be drawn inside.

If the Sh’daar possessed such power, they didn’t need to rely on the Turusch or their other subject species.

Why fight this protracted war for almost forty years, when such technology could wipe Humankind out of existence with scarcely a thought?

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u3bf9ffd7-78e3-5a5a-b35c-8dba3b825c13)

Copyright (#uf321b51e-955c-58f5-b1b8-f29df6475ec0)

Dedication (#ue0c7175b-0835-52b9-a113-c497824dfa8e)

Into the Jaws of a Savage God (#ub3697b74-b167-5b62-8075-edddcbf58771)

Prologue (#u9aa7db8b-a0ce-5baa-9b82-f664980c597a)

Chapter One (#u817f192f-2e4e-5b89-975f-de1123feb263)

Chapter Two (#u5267931a-f660-5c4c-91c1-baae9bd18b44)

Chapter Three (#u4e42fc57-c8d2-5775-90c4-617e1775e4c2)

Chapter Four (#uea7f29f3-a855-5f73-b226-536e2685376c)

Chapter Five (#u21448a22-25a1-5052-b774-32265063320b)

Chapter Six (#u2767f0b8-f2b1-521a-b672-f475876d6f50)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)