"Shock-and-awe storytelling . . .huge. . . satisfying, tragic, and spectacular. . . .cataclysm on a cosmological scale, rivaling big-ideas authors Gregory Benford, Alastair Reynolds, Olaf Stapledon. . . ."--Kirkus ReviewsThe countdown has begun-humans on planet Amular, along with the survivors of an alien race called the Loud, face a hopeless battle: an ancient alien originating beyond the observable universe is coming, killing everything in their...