Xeelee: Endurance (Stephen Baxter) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги (ч. 13)

One by one, the human worlds fell dark before the Xeelee Scourge. At last, a million years after Poole’s time, the streams of refugees became visible in the skies of Earth itself.

Since the time of Michael Poole there had been immortals among the ranks of mankind. The descendants of Jasoft Parz were among them. They emerged, lived, and sometimes died through accident or malice, in their own slow generations, hidden within humanity. They had been called many names. ‘Ascendant’ was one of the more acceptable. Yet they endured.

The Ascendants had come to believe that as long as Earth survived, mankind would survive.

And so they took steps to make that happen.