The novel “Aristoi” by Walter Jon Williams was published for the first time in 1992.

Gabriel is an Aristos engaged above all in the fields of architecture and music running various planets whose activity is focused on the arts. He is helped by various dáimones, limited personalities who deal with specific activities. Not all the Aristoi are satisfied with the situation and some of them would like to return to the adventurous past that forged their society, but Gabriel is part of the majority who believe that such a past was too chaotic and dangerous.

When Cressida, an Aristos who works in the science field, discovers that someone violated the Hyperlogos, which contains all the knowledge of the Logarchy, she investigates and discovers that something very strange is happening in an area of ​​space that’s supposed to have been devastated by a supernova. She confides in Gabriel, the Aristos closest to that area, just before she gets killed in the destruction of her laboratory. Gabriel, convinced that it wasn’t an accident, realizes that he must investigate in secret a possible threat to the entire Logarchy.