A million light years from home and thousands of years into the future, the Founders establish a technology-free society on the world they named Iskendar.Ten thousand years since the Founders arrival, Hypatia Theon, known by the world as The Catalogue for her precise and near perfect memory, readies herself for inauguration as Assistant to the Great Librarian.In the darkness of the library Hypatia meets Jet, a stranger to Iskendar. He tells her he can slip between the world...