Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Her descendants will tell the story of how Portia entered the temple of the ants and stole the eye of their god.

She may die, and her eyes look into that abyss and feed her with a terror of extinction, of un-being, that is perhaps the legacy of all life.

It was the curse of the Old Empire, that division of man against man that was the continual brake on human progress.

Everything is only information, if you have sufficient capacity to encompass it.