The Time Wanderers

Years after the events of Beetle in the Anthill, Maxim Kammerer now heads a bureau built to track the alien Wanderers' influence on humanity, and his protege Toivo Glumov is convinced the signs are everywhere — in strange children, in unexplained talents, in a species quietly outgrowing itself. The final Noon Universe novel asks whether humanity's next evolutionary step is a gift or a kind of loss.