Too many options? Treat your friends and family to their favourite stores with a Bayshore Shopping Centre gift card, redeemable at participating retailers throughout the centre. Click below to purchase yours today!Purchase Here
Coles Aegis of the Void: The Architect Cycle: Book One at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
*Product information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, shipping and return information please contact Coles
The galaxy doesn't erase the guilty. It erases everyone.
Commander Kael Dren saved forty thousand lives and the Empire made him pay for it. Stripped of rank, stripped of citizenship, loaded onto a prison transport heading for the edge of known space — he expected to disappear.
Instead, he found the Aegis.
An obsidian sphere wrapped in light that follows no known physics. A rogue intelligence that has been guarding it alone for two hundred years. A Vel'Keth warlord whose memories are dissolving — not from trauma, but because his homeworld is being unmade. A data thief who has been one step behind tragedy for three years and has finally stopped running from the front of it.
And a threat that does not destroy.
It erases. Retroactively. Stars disappear as though they never burned. Civilizations unexist. Memories dissolve before the bodies do. The Null has been spreading through the deep Expanse for forty years, and it is not moving randomly anymore.
It knows the Aegis has been found.
It is coming for them.
Kael Dren is a disgraced man with no rank, no ship, no authority, and no official reason to fight for a galaxy that condemned him. He has an artifact that remembers four billion years of civilizations that tried and failed. He has a crew that chose each other when choosing anything else would have been easier.
And he has eleven months before the first inhabited world disappears from the map forever.
Aegis of the Void is the first book in The Architect Cycle — a five-book space opera epic about the cost of conscience, the weight of memory, and the specific kind of courage it takes to carry the only weapon capable of saving a universe that never deserved saving.
For fans of The Expanse, Halo, and Dune.
The empire will fall. The void will rise. One disgraced commander will decide which survives.
The galaxy doesn't erase the guilty. It erases everyone.
Commander Kael Dren saved forty thousand lives and the Empire made him pay for it. Stripped of rank, stripped of citizenship, loaded onto a prison transport heading for the edge of known space — he expected to disappear.
Instead, he found the Aegis.
An obsidian sphere wrapped in light that follows no known physics. A rogue intelligence that has been guarding it alone for two hundred years. A Vel'Keth warlord whose memories are dissolving — not from trauma, but because his homeworld is being unmade. A data thief who has been one step behind tragedy for three years and has finally stopped running from the front of it.
And a threat that does not destroy.
It erases. Retroactively. Stars disappear as though they never burned. Civilizations unexist. Memories dissolve before the bodies do. The Null has been spreading through the deep Expanse for forty years, and it is not moving randomly anymore.
It knows the Aegis has been found.
It is coming for them.
Kael Dren is a disgraced man with no rank, no ship, no authority, and no official reason to fight for a galaxy that condemned him. He has an artifact that remembers four billion years of civilizations that tried and failed. He has a crew that chose each other when choosing anything else would have been easier.
And he has eleven months before the first inhabited world disappears from the map forever.
Aegis of the Void is the first book in The Architect Cycle — a five-book space opera epic about the cost of conscience, the weight of memory, and the specific kind of courage it takes to carry the only weapon capable of saving a universe that never deserved saving.
For fans of The Expanse, Halo, and Dune.
The empire will fall. The void will rise. One disgraced commander will decide which survives.
Coles is renowned for its outstanding customer service and great selection of books. Along with the vast array of magazines, stationary, audio-books, children's literature, fiction, non-fiction and reference books, you can find accessories to make your reading experience more pleasurable. We can recommend the very best in reading today. We will help you search our titles for exactly what you need, and if we do not have it in stock, we will order it for you.
