A Hunger for the Infinite, which first appeared in Robert Silverberg's
Far Horizons anthology, is a novella that takes place in the universe
of "The Galactic Center Saga," detailing a galactic war between
mechanical and biological life. Here, the pilots had made it to True
Center in order to destroy something, anything, important to the Mechs,
but Paris had something else on his mind. A story of the Mantis, and the
decline of humans beginning in 3600 AD.