Transmentation Transience: Or, an Accession to the People's Council for Nine Thousand Worlds (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798228648814)

From bestselling authors Darkly Lem, Transmentation Transience is the first book in a vast, multiverse-spanning epic where power, ideology, and ambition collide across infinite worlds.

Over thousands of years and thousands of worlds, universe-spanning societies of interdimensional travelers have arisen. Some seek to make the multiverse a better place, some seek power and glory, others knowledge, while still others simply want to write their own tale across the cosmos.

When a routine training mission goes very wrong, two competing societies are thrust into an unwanted confrontation. As intelligence officer Malculm Kilkaneade receives the blame within Burel Hird, Roamers of Tala Beinir and Shara find themselves inadvertently swept up in an assassination plot.

Meanwhile, factions within Burel Hird are vying for greater control over their society in a war of cutthroat machinations--at a heavy price. Elsewhere, two members of rival societies lay their own plans for insurrection--with ramifications that will ripple across the Many Worlds ...