Publisher's Synopsis
"Pyrrhic Victory: A victory that comes at so great a cost as to be tantamount to defeat. Named for King Pyrrhus of Epirus."
Across time and space, something is unraveling and the end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching. From a laboratory at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, to an alien planet and other universes, the stage is being set for a war which will rewrite everything. Jacob Kent, Claire Amberty, Arnold Hershey, Gu Liang, and Pang Tu: five humans who will be influential in this war, are thrust into first contact with each other, extraterrestrials, and an artificial intelligence. In this first act, the alternate worlds collide for the first time, and the unwinnable circumstances begin to emerge... Altern: Act I is the first installment of the interquel to Pyrrhic: Essex, beginning the exploration of the chain of events that will reorder everything across all of existence and who will be there at the end of all things.
