Timequest — William Tedford

The Kigon invade the Galaxy of Man. The invasion is not what it seems. Countless human intergalactic transports are launched for the only sanctuary within reach, the galaxy Andromeda two and a half million light years distant. Unknown to those sleeping the sleep of eons, some worlds do not migrate. And they survive and prosper. Five million years pass.

In Star Rashanon, what will be termed a stargod selects a sleeper in a delelict transport, Chayn Jahil, a man who rescues a nearly alien female, Villimy Dy, evolved human of a world that fled the Kigon later in man's history. Their first mission is to rescue Reylaton, an orbiting city of inhospitable worlds bracing themselves against attack from the Blackstar aliens, and struggling to survive their own isolation and superstitious turmoil.

In Hydrabyss, Chayn and Villimy encounter a derelict Kigon transport orbiting a red dwarf sun orbited in turn by a world of water, Hydrabyss, a world inhabited by human escapees from the Kigon transport, humans who have modified themselves to survive in their world of water. Their only source for precious metal is the starship itself, and a constant battle takes place between the Kigon AI, Lorb, and the Chilsun, Children of the Yellow Sun. Chayn and Villimy's seemingly hopeless task is to remind the Chilsun and Lorb as well that their only hope of survival, of reaching their respective destinations, is the restoration of the transport and the acquisition of a new hope for what had been seen as a hopeless tomorrow.

In Nemydia Deep, a convoy of countless starships are unknowingly approaching a million paradise worlds teraformed by an advanced humanity that no longer recognizes archaic humans as their own species. Behind them, hyperlight fighters manned by machines seek their destruction, and ahead, giant blue stars are detonating into nova, pierced by vast plasma beams emitted by an alien species that inhabit the electrified vacuum of the Nemydia Deep, a nebula they call home. Resolve this crisis, and Chayn and Villimy will have set humanity on a course of cooperation and rebirth in a galaxy vastly more expansive than the one they had once called home.

All three novels of the Timequest Trilogy. These novels were originally published in '81 by Nordon under their Leisure imprint. Nordon folded and reorganized as Dorchester. Dorchester reprinted the trilogy in '85. The trilogy was never a best-seller, but popular and has had a long-standing thirty-six-year fan base. Penny copies of the typo-plagued original mass market paperback are still available at Amazon. This new Kindle version has been revised and upgraded and shows considerable improvement over the original.