Description

"Reality is their game. Humanity are their playthings."

Beneath the surface of a barren dwarf planet, deep in one of our galaxy's spiral arms, the Great Archive stores countless unexplored mysteries and wonders from across the Milky Way. But none as mind-boggling as the one Master Lǎoshī has just uncovered...

An Automated Intelligence, created by unknowable beings and hidden in plain sight for centuries, claims to know why Homo sapiens are dying out - and how to stop the decline.

Aerlys's new mission: infiltrate a facility that exists only in impossible space, retrieve an evolutionary map, and transform humanity's destiny.

Aerlys's new problem: arcane physics, unfamiliar terrain, and deadly opponents with the power to forge weapons from the darkness itself.

Stranded in hostile territory, Aerlys and her companions discover that saving their species starts with saving themselves.

In a game where reality itself is the board, sometimes the pieces must learn to move themselves.

File under: rogue AI, alien menace, young adult heroes, space opera, sweeping adventure, interdimensional travel