America fails to cow the world; Contagions prove to be a much larger threat than expected; Terrorism grows in frequency and creativity; The results from SETI surprise both sides of the alien intellige...

Husband and wife deep space explorers do battle with nanotechnology AIs and more in a race against monstrous corporations to determine the future destiny of humanity.

People from all over the world trickle into the Americas over many millennia, crossing both seas and arctic wastes; the earliest Americans struggle against freakishly large and terrifying monster anim...