Eternal Light Author:Paul J. McAuley From the back cover: "There is no end to beginnings in the unbounded multiverse -- and no beginnings to its end . . . . The seeds of Dorthy Yoshida's destiny were sown a million years in the past -- when a giant sun exploded and vast civilations died in the subsequent blood feuding of ten thousand alien family nations. ... more » A dozen years before Dorthy's birth, the human race was unwittingly drawn into an ancient genocidal conflict that was not its own. Now the abused earthborn Talent finds herself rocketing toward the galaxy's core -- to stand at the frontlines of humanity's final battle against a fearsome invisible enemy that can obliterate a universe. For it is Dorthy Yoshida who unknowingly possesses the answers to the mysteries of eternity and the key to preventing the apocalyptic unraveling of space and time."« less