David Alexander Smith Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Twenty-first-century Boston serves as the gateway to Earth for aliens and has become a technological marvel where humans and aliens mix, struggling to create a new society while coping with greed, immense wealth, and murder. Reprint.

Light years from Earth, the starship Open Palm approaches its destination. Guided by a dangerously intelligent computer, commanded by an unstable captain, and haunted by memories of dead crew members, the crew is about to learn why humans were invited here by the mysterious Cygnan race.