In the conclusion to this epic interstellar adventure by Nebula Award nominee Wil McCarthy, humanity stands at a crossroads as the heroes who fashioned a man-made heaven must rescue their descendants from eternal damnation.TO CRUSH THE MOONOnce the Queendom of Sol was a glowing monument to humankinds loftiest dreams. Ageless and immortal, its citizens lived in peaceful splendor. But as Sol buckled under the swell of an immorbid population, space itself literally ran out.Conrad Mursk has returned to Sol on the crippled starship Newhope. His crew are the frozen refugees of a failed colony known as Barnards Star. A thousand years older, Mursk finds Sol on the brink of rebellion, while a fanatic necro cult is reviving death itself. Now Mursk and his lover, Captain Xiomara Xmary Li Weng, are sent on a final, desperate mission by King Bruno de Towajione of the greatest terraformers of the agesto literally crush the moon. If they succeed, theyll save billions of lost souls. If they fail, theyll strand humanity between deathand something unimaginably worse.From the Paperback edition.