Author: robertsilverberg

With an introduction by Neil Gaiman: Once a hero, now a pariah, Richard Muller is humanity s last hope Richard Muller was an honorable diplomat who braved unimaginable dangers to make contact with the first-known race of intelligent aliens. But those aliens left a mark on him: a psychic wound that emanates a telepathic miasma his fellow humans can neither cure nor endure. Muller is exiled to the … the remote planet of Lemnos, where he is left, deeply embittered, at the heart of a deadly maze … until a new alien race appears, seemingly intent on exterminating humanity. Only…

From a Hugo Award–winning master of science fiction: Archaeology student Tom joins a deep-space expedition to gather artifacts left by an extinct alien race — only to find evidence that the High Ones are still alive…