The Transmigration of Souls

Philip K. Dick Award nominee 1996.

A century ago, Fortress America recalled all citizens, expelled all foreigners, closed its borders, severed all communication, and shot down every person, plane, or satellite that strayed near. Now Fortress America is a great power hiding in fear of an alien artifact discovered on Luna, an artifact linked to anywhere. But not anywhere in space. Or time. The Gate leads to if-time, not-space, innerspace, cyberspace, infinite realities beyond realities of ruins left a billion years ago and prowled by an angel of death... the Spacetime Juggernaut.

But a small band of Chinese and Arab astronauts, pursued by immortal, body-morphing American soldiers, is about to enter the Gate.

Take one step: You might return.
Take two: You'll be lost in the umimaginable – forever.
Take three: You'll bring the Juggernaut.

But the Angel doesn't just kill worlds. It annihilates universes. And it's hunting for ours...