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The explosive novelization of the events that followed the cataclysm of Infinite Crisis. Cosmic legend has it that when the primordial gods of antiquity perished in some bygone cataclysm, the universe gave birth to a new breed of gods who reigned from two eternally warring worlds, the heavenly New Genesis and the hellish Apokolips. Now, a vast conspiracy of evil is determined to eradicate the New Gods, stealing their souls to wield universal power that can destroy all of reality. At the end of an age in which time, space, and reality may bow before such sinister forces, the fate of the Earth lies in the hands of five unlikely super heroes who have one destiny to fulfill: to save the world at all costs, regardless of the consequences.

Greg Cox, a consulting editor for Tor Books, is theNew York Times bestselling author of numerous Star Trek novels, as well as such popular television and comic book tie-ins as Alias, Farscape, Xena, X-Men, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Karl Kerschl has worked on Superman, The Flash, Robin and the Teen Titans, among other heroic characters, and recently began a webcomic called The Abominable Charles Christopher, which was nominated for an Eisner Award. He is currently working on an original graphic Novel.