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A first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Bumped at head and tail of book spine. Age tanning to pages. The dust jacket is complete, still shows the price but is showing signs of wear to the extremities. Some creasing to head of jacket spine and a small crease at the jacket fold-in to front flap.
Seventh book in the Xeelee Series.
SYNOPSIS: “Half a million years in the future, on a dead, war-ravaged world at the centre of the Galaxy, there is a mile-high statue of Michael Pool.
Poole, born on Earth in the fourth millennium, was one of mankind’s most influential heroes. He was not a warrior, not an emperor. He was an engineer, a builder of wormhole transit systems. But Poole’s work would ultimately lead to a vast and destructive conflict, a million-year war between humanity and the enigmatic, powerful aliens known as the Xeelee.
The Xeelee won, but at a huge cost. Then, defeated in a greater war, the Xeelee eventually fled the universe. Most of them.
A handful were left behind, equipped with time travel capabilities, their task to tidy up: to reorder history more to the Xeelee’s liking. That million-year war with humankind was one blemish. It had to be erased. And in order to do that, a lone Xeelee was sent back in time to remove Michael Poole from history…”