The Clown God

Captain Evan Stevens attends a time travellers' convention and ends up in the 34th Century where he has to explain how he got there to a long-suffering covert technology developer.Notorious master-criminal Grendel's Grief decides that annihilation isn't enough for the shadowy syndicate who killed his family, and sets out to steal their planet as well.When Viator Broker stumbles upon the mythical Book of Misbegotten Creatures, only one academic has a chance of interpreting it and unlocking its terrible secrets. And that academic is Elan Controversial-To-The-End Ende.The Molran Fleet makes its long and dangerous flight, a thousand dark and long-forgotten secrets in its holds and in its wake.And behind them all, sitting in the centre of a great web in space, time, and data, the Clown God watches.