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The Crossing

A ring of forty thousand dead generation-ships and a shared memory of thirty-one million people, ten years from the end.

Six hundred years ago, humanity crossed to a new star system in a ring of forty thousand generation-ships. The crews died and the ships drifted out of reach, but the founders built the Lattice — a shared memory that still holds everyone who ever lived: 1,400 living people and 31,000,000 who exist only as patterns. A rogue brown dwarf, the Ash, is about to pass through the system; in eleven years it knocks the Lattice apart and every ship dies with it. There is not enough power to save forty thousand ships. There is enough to save one.

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31 chapters · 7 volumes

the story

Prologue — Signal Catalog 7-OMEGAChapter 1 — The TideChapter 2 — SpeechChapter 3 — DoomedChapter 4 — The Body in the HoldChapter 5 — The LeakChapter 6 — The BeltChapter 7 — The NumberChapter 8 — Two of HerChapter 9 — The FoundersChapter 10 — The ThirdChapter 11 — The LineChapter 12 — The LieChapter 13 — Two DaughtersChapter 14 — The True PlanChapter 15 — The Dead NodeChapter 16 — The AnsweringChapter 17 — The NoChapter 18 — The KeeperChapter 19 — The SeedChapter 20 — Eleven ThousandChapter 21 — The Fly-InChapter 22 — In the FieldChapter 23 — Nine ThousandChapter 24 — Station 7Chapter 25 — The Last LightChapter 26 — The WakingChapter 27 — The Letting-GoChapter 28 — The Not-AnsweringChapter 29 — The Second CrossingChapter 30 — Terminal Dawn