The Outcast

Günter Sanderson is a young empath from the enlightened Largitas, possessor of unique abilities. Mirra Juthani is a vagabond from the impoverished Chaitra, a star hitchhiker who earns her living through the energy resource of her own body. Who could have supposed that a chance meeting between Günter and Mirra in the vicinity of the mysterious Sarcophagus would bring two cosmic civilizations to the brink of war, send bounty hunters running themselves ragged in pursuit of an extraordinary quarry, and drive luminaries of science to rack their highly organized brains trying to disassemble a miracle bolt by bolt?

"The Prodigal Son" is the fifth novel of the "Oikoumene" epic. The "Cosmic Symphony" was written by G. L. Oldi ten years ago, and in "one distant galaxy" a year passes as two — not for nothing does the new novel carry the subtitle "Oikoumene: Twenty Years Later."

What next? The universe will never be the same again.