As Earth braces for annihilation from a catastrophic asteroid collision, humanity's final legacy is launched into the stars: self-replicating seed ships designed to resurrect Earth's life from DNA across the galaxy. Katharina, born as a beta-test human in Earth's final hours, becomes the lens through which we witness the end of our world and the rebirth of life on distant, alien planets. Over hundreds of thousands of years, through Katharina's...