IMAGINE A FUTURE that today's generation can only dream of. A trillion people live under the gentle rule of the Assembly on over a thousand inhabited worlds. Peace and stability have reigned unbroken for nearly twelve thousand years, and war and evil are merely ancient history.
But everything is about to change. On Farholme-a Made World at the very edge of the Assembly-strange things
are happening. A girl sees an impossible creature, a stranger from Ancient Earth arrives in response to a troubling vision, and people begin to say, do, and think things that oppose everything the Assembly stands for. And slowly. incredulously, a handful of men and women come to recognize the unthinkable: Evil has returned once more, and it must be fought.
The Shadow at Evening is a triumph of imagination. The first volume in a fantastic epic in the spirit of C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, it weaves together the worlds of science and the spirit, technology and the supernatural, into something unique and haunting.