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Eine Saga, die ans Ende aller Zeiten führt. Der Beginn eines einzigartigen Abenteuers, das eine Sonderstellung in Wolfgang Hohlbeins Werk einnimmt: Die Idee zu Infinity hat den Bestsellerautor über dreißig Jahre lang nicht ruhen lassen. Nun ist daraus sein größter Weltenentwurf geworden - eine Saga vom Kampf um den allmächtigen Turm und vom endlosen Krieg der Menschen gegen Feinde aus einer anderen Zeit.

Some cultures say the ouroboros symbolizes infinity. Others claim the snake or dragon depicted eating its own tail represents the cyclic nature of life and death. But just as Cam Mackintosh and Freyja Jorgensen's lives are experiencing their own rebirth, their sustainable community is threatened. The ex-lovers are unexpectedly thrust together again to defend those they care about.

Some things never change. Even in the new World war and hatred keep the party from finding a peaceful place to live out their lives.

Visions of pulp era heroes fill his thoughts. He dreams big, but harsh reality digs in as he grows up, and he resigns himself to building surveillance drones for the military. After a brief probative period, he’s moved into the clandestine world of investigating crashed alien craft. Fascinated beyond anything he thought possible, it’s a dream come true. A strange find leads to obsession. Combined with his lack of social skills it eventually gets him fired. But he’s seen too much. A year later he returns and pulls off a bloody heist.

A miracle of science and medicine is achieved by Dr. Vincent Rivera in the development of Reincarbonation. His desperate attempts to save a child leapfrog science forward, but spell the beginning of mankind's demise. Death becomes optional as Reincarbonation transplants a patient's old soul into a new, healthy cloned body. Eventually Reincarbonation is militarized. What was started by the altruistic Dr. Rivera soon becomes the ruling corporation in the world, "The Board", which seizes control over all the re-soldiers - along with every nation on the globe.

Estados Unidos, año 2500. La Humanidad es inmortal; hace años que el profesor Milton Roosevelt creó y propagó por toda la Tierra el virus que permite al sistema nervioso humano regenerarse por siempre. Pero esta inmortalidad viene con un inconveniente: al cumplir los doscientos años de edad, el cuerpo falla bruscamente y se deteriora, condenando a la raza humana a vivir encerrada en su propio cerebro, dentro de cuerpos decrépitos que no pueden morir. Este proceso se ha dado en llamar Decadencia.