Ancestral Machines

''Proper galaxy-spanning space opera'' Iain M. Banks on Seeds of Earth

The Warcage is a feat of unprecedented stellar engineering: two hundred worlds harnessed to an artificial sun.

Built to travel through space as a monument to peace between alien species, its voracious rulers have turned it into a nightmarish wasteland, capturing new planets for slaves and resources, then discarding the old.

Now, ...