Millennia ago, a doomed civilisation did the impossible: saving their planet from an encroaching black hole by converting it into a giant spacecraft. Now, the Dark Wing - piloted by Captain Benedict Gunn - shepherds the planet and its entire race of Quails through space, searching for a new sun. A product of intense research and wild imagination, Dark Wing is operatic in every sense of the word: vast, intellectual, and spanning generations. It offers a prescient glimpse at the engineering, culture, and emotionality of an interstellar society - much like the one we're becoming.