In the fifth and final book of the epic science-fiction saga The Genesis Project, the peace-seeking alien alliance seems to have found the perfect world to colonise in a distant corner of the universe. Except someone or something has been there before them. And it may not have left.
Centuries of war, politics and near total annihilation have forged the Council of Worlds, whose only desire is to settle peaceful planets throughout the universe. It began when humanity escaped the death of their planet which set them on a dangerous adventure of inter-species contact.
Believing that the years of devastating war are behind them, the alliance's search for a home planet seems successful when they discover a forgotten world, complete with an abandoned city. It is only when they are attacked by strangely-intelligent machines that they realise that their landing here was not an unfortunate coincidence…
In Genesis 3 – A New Beginning, the various species of the alliance are plunged into a brutal battle for survival against an enemy that will never surrender. As the odds mount against them it seems that the humans that left earth many years ago have finally met an adversary they cannot overcome…