Been a long time getting here, but after diversion and digressions, this is it. The immortals versus the mortals, and it must be said at first glance it doesn't seem like much of a competition, the mortals being a rather limp and unimpressive lot, for all that they created the cyborgs to live through all of recorded history preserving knowledge and artifacts to profit the Company in the future. However, there's a lot going on, with factions of evil cyborgs and factions of good (ish) cyborgs racing to be the first to defeat the Company and, basically, take over the world. Then there's poor Lewis trapped under a hill, and Mendoza and the three recombinant Enforcers she has loved and lost at various points during the series, engaged in a bizarre family arrangement or experiment outside of time under the watchful eye of a powerful piratical AI. Who will rule all in the end, if anyone?