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Human Space is being torn apart, figuratively and literally.

Ten thousand years after the events in the Canta Libre books, humankind has spread across a hundred star systems. Scores of civilisations share Human Space in an uneasy network of trade and alliances. Amongst them, one power-hungry polity planning for war. And then ships begin to be destroyed by an invisible force and a strange astronomical anomaly is discovered at the edge of Human Space. War breaks out as neighbouring governments rush to examine the anomaly while the chaos it appears to be causing spreads among them. Some believe the catastrophe threatening humanity is an alien invasion, and as interstellar war engulfs the worlds around them, a small group of people and Broome, an ancient robot surviving from humanity's forgotten past, decide their only hope is to seek help from the mythical Omega Point and the god-like beings that once lived there. But first, they have to find it.

The Deep Fracture trilogy is the third series of novels set in the Placid Point Universe.