Six-time Hugo Prize champion Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind’s extension beyond the solar system in Apes and Angels, the final installment in the Superstar Goal Trilogy.Humankind headed out to the celebrities not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans visited the stars in a eager crusade to save lots of intelligent existence wherever they discovered it.A wave of loss of life is growing through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted through the galaxy’s about Apes and Angels core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth’s vicinity on the acceleration of light. Every world it touched was wiped clean of all life. But it is possible to protect a globe from gamma rays. Earth is secure.Now, guided with the ancient intelligent machines called the Predecessors, men and women from Earth seek out those precious, rare worlds that harbor intelligent varieties, determined to save them through the doom that’s hurtling toward them.The crew of the Odysseus is here at Mithra Gamma, the third planet from the star Mithra, to protect the stone-age inhabitants from your Loss of life Wave. But they’ll also have to secure themselves.