In the world invented by Stephen Donaldson, man is not the only master of the star roads: the interests of the Earth are opposed by the mysterious Amnion. The main characters of the epic - Morn Hyland and her son Davis, spaceship captains Angus Thermopile and Nick Saccorso - are unwillingly involved in a complex conflict between two civilizations, unfolding in the forbidden space between human space and the territory of the amnions.

Lost in the Distant In space, on the planetoid Small Thanatos, pirate shipyards were built, where Morn Highland, Nick Saccorso, and Angus Thermopile, transformed into a deadly cyborg, were sent on a secret mission. Safe heaven will soon become hell...