The starstream is beautiful. But beauty turns deadly when an ancient AI bent on destruction uses it to travel uptime, to humanity's future. John Bandicut and his alien companions believed the Mindaru dead, after their intervention to save the Orion Nebula and surrounding worlds. But now a part of this ancient and malicious AI colony is swarming up the starstream from the deep past, to endanger Shipworld and all they have been laboring to defend. The Reefs of Time is Part 1 of a new chapter of the science fiction epic, The Chaos Chronicles. Concluded in Crucible of Time. Available in print, ebook, and audiobook. From the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End.