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Title Page
Copyright Page
I - MUSTA’RIB
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III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
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XI
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XIV
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XVI
XVII
XVIII
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Afterword
Also by Stephen Baxter from Gollancz:
Non-fiction
Deep Future
Fiction
Mammoth
Longtusk
Icebones
Behemoth
Reality Dust
Evolution
The Web
Gulliverzone
Webcrash
Destiny’s Children
Coalescent
Exultant
Transcendent
Resplendent
A Time Odyssey (with Arthur C. Clarke)
Time’s Eye
Sunstorm
Time’s Tapestry
Emperor
Conqueror
In Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Non-fiction
Revolutions in the Earth
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Timeline
The Testament of Eadgyth of York:
(Lines revealed in AD 1070)
In the last days
To the tail of the peacock
He will come:
The spider’s spawn, the Christ-bearer
The Dove.
And the Dove will fly east,
Wings strong, heart stout, mind clear.
God’s Engines will burn our ocean
And flame across the lands of spices.
All this I have witnessed
I and my mothers.
Send the Dove west! O, send him west!
(Lines revealed in AD 1481)
The Dragon stirs from his eastern throne,
Walks west.
The Feathered Serpent, plague-hardened,
Flies over ocean sea,
Flies east.
Serpent and Dragon, the mortal duel
And Serpent feasts on holy flesh.
All this I have witnessed
I and my mothers.
Send the Dove west! O, send him west!
The ‘Indendium Dei’ cryptogram:
(Source: the ‘Engines of God’ Codex of Aethelmaer of Malmesbury,
c. AD 1000)
BMQVK XESEF EBZKM BMHSM BGNSD DYEED OSMEM HPTVZ HESZS
ZHVH
PROLOGUE
AD 1070