Award-winning author Alastair Reynolds returns to the bestselling Revelation Space Universe with an epic tale of humanity's struggle to survive among the stars.

For thirty years a tiny band of humans has been sheltering in the caverns of an airless, crater-packed world called Michaelmas.  Beyond their solar system lie the ruins of human intersellar civilization, stalked by a ruthless, infinitly patient cybernetic entity determined to root out the last few bands of survivors.  One man has guided the people of Michaelmas through the hardest of times and given them hope against the wolves: Miguel de Ruyter.

When a lone human ship blunders into their system and threatens to lead the wolves to Michaelmas, de Ruyter embarks on a desperate, near-suicidal mission to prevent catastrophe.  But an encounter with a refugee from the ship - the enigmatic woman who calls herself only Glass - leads to de Ruyter's world being turned upside down.