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Compiled by Hank Davis First Edition 2010 Baen Books Riverdale ISBN 9781439133330 Trade paperback Cover illustration by David Seeley x+406 pages Price: $13.00 Notes Part 5 of The Technic Civilization Saga. Contains:
The stories are numbered to reflect the reading order suggested by Sandra Miesel's timeline. The image opposite and the blurb below are from the first printing of the 2011 paperback edition, ISBN 9781451637670. Cover illustration by David Seeley.
Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
No longer a brash, young ensign, Captain Dominic Flandry has risen in rank, and now appreciates fully that the Terran Empire is old and tired, wanting to be left in peace. But the enemies it has made and the competing empire of Merseia will give it no peace. Too evenly matched for open warfare not to destroy them both, the opponents engage in subtle thrust and counter-thrust, feint and counter-feint, with Flandry in the thick of it.
Through this and his succeeding adventures he will struggle gloriously and snatch victory from the alien jaws of defeat, yet Flandry is a tragic figure: a man who knows too much history, who knows that battle, scheme and even betray as he will, the fall of the Empire is inevitable, and the Long Night is approaching. If that darkness is not to fall in his own lifetime, if the things he cares about are to be saved, he must do what he can. And anyone, human or alien, who gets in his way will most definitely regret it.
This is the fifth volume in the first complete edition of Poul Anderson's Technic Civilization saga.
Praise for Poul Anderson:
"These are stories of the classic science fiction tradition: hard science and tough characters in logically well integrated action stories." – Jerry Pournelle
"One of science fiction's authentic geniuses." – "The winner of seven Hugos and three Nebulas . . . one of the towering figures of modern SF and fantasy." – Publishers Weekly |
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