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      Harper

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2014

      Copyright © Ian Douglas 2014

      Cover Art © Gregory Bridges

      Ian Douglas asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9780007483778

      Ebook Edition © May 2014 ISBN: 9780007483785

      Version: 2016-11-17

      Praise for IAN DOUGLAS

      and his thrilling

      STAR CARRIER SERIES!

      “The action is full-­blooded and almost nonstop, yet the well-­developed background is surprisingly rich and logical. . . . As immersive as it is impressive.”

      Kirkus, starred review for Deep Space

      “Douglas knows his SF.”

      Publishers Weekly

      “Well researched and quite imaginative.”

      CNN Online

      DEEP SPACE was voted one of the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Books of 2013 by Kirkus.

      Dedication

      As always,

      throughout the multiverse,

      worlds without end,

      for Brea

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Praise for Ian Douglas

       Dedication

       Prologue

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Epilogue

       About the Author

       By Ian Douglas

       About the Publisher

      Prologue

      They called themselves the Consciousness.

      Following the faint but telltale leakage of gravity from one universe to another, they’d detected the circle of whirling masses as they opened a passageway between the ’branes, emerging in a four-­dimensional space subtly different from other, known realities. They were working now to create a permanent gateway between universes, creating girders and connectors spanning light years, coaxing solid light from the vacuum energy itself, anchoring suns, mining starcores, imbedding the structural components within the fabric of spacetime itself.

      At this point, the scope of the Consciousness spanned a number of universes. A metamind, a hive mentality, it was an emergent epiphenomenon arising from the interplay of some hundreds of quadrillions of individual minds,

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