The world of Neverness is one of filled with extraordinary beings: the Alaloi, whose genes have "backmutated" to give them the appearance of Neanderthals; the Order of Pilots, which reworks the laws of time and physics to slingshot its members through dense regions of "thickspace"; the Solid State Entity, a nebula-size brain composed of moon-size biocomputers; and the Leldra, a mythical race of aliens that eons ago seeded the galaxy with its DNA and initiated the evolutionary cycle.
long and weird, super techy stuff, poet killers, neanderthals, space flights, galaxy-sized brains, wormholes, ice skating
