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spectacle that will mark the moment that begins the triumph or our reascendance!"
Mormorel took up the theme. "Yes! Consign them to the reduction furnaces. Then shall the people
see the Enlightener's false faith perish in the same ignominy as their Enlightener."
"Let's do it now, then, Eskenderom ordered, "before any miracle workers from the sky can
intervene this time."
Standing beside Thirg, Groork's metal knees were almost buckling. There was only one hope now.
With his secret transmitter he sent out once again the signal to the humans. And received once again:
"SORRY, NOBODY HERE RIGHT NOW. LEAVE MESSAGE AFTER BEEP."
BAEN BOOKS by James P. Hogan
Also in this series:
Code of the Lifemaker

Inherit the Stars
The Genesis Machine
The Gentle Giants of Ganymede
The Two Faces of Tomorrow
Thrice Upon a Time
Giants' Star
Voyage from Yesteryear
The Proteus Operation
Endgame Enigma
The Mirror Maze
The Infinity Gambit
Entoverse
The Multiplex Man
Realtime Interrupt
Minds, Machines & Evolution
Paths to Otherwhere
Bug Park
Star Child
Rockets, Redheads & Revolution
Cradle of Saturn
The Immortality Option
Martian Knightlife
The Legend That Was Earth
The Anguished Dawn

Prologue
By the second decade of the twenty-first century the nations of Earth, while as prone as ever to the
localized squabblings that would probably be a part of the human scene for as long as humanity endured,
had receded from the specter of global doomsday that had tied up entire industries of creative talent and
stifled vision for over fifty years. After a period of indecision while governments absorbed the new
realities and former defense-satiated contractors searched for a new direction, the leading-edge
technologies that the years of confrontation had stimulated became the driving force of a revitalized,
multinational space program.
An early object for further investigation was Titan, the giant moon of Saturn, perpetually cloaked in
high-altitude clouds of red-brown nitrogenous oxides. The first probe to attempt a surface survey was
the EuropeanDauphin , which arrived in 2018. Data acquired previously from astronomical
observations and the probes sent to the outer planets in the 1970s suggested surface conditions close to
the triple point of methane, raising the intriguing possibility that it might exist as a gas in the atmosphere