Ten millennia had passed since the creation of the Beasts, and those ten thousand years had obliterated the original purpose of Adam December and the construct surgeons. Ten millennia had passed since the word WAR was forgotten and remembered; and that word wiped out ten thousand years of peaceful coexistence. Ten millennia, one thousand decades, ten thousand years .. and for the first time Humans and Beasts were dying throughout the galaxy. But it should have been expected: man had created the Beasts in his own image, and unfortunately, the Beasts were just like him. The first of the brilliant science fiction trilogy of the Dies !me, by the talented author of CRADLE OF THE SUN.