The Savior
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2014
Summary
- Sequel to The Heretic, Book 10 in the nationally best-sellingGeneral series.
- Duisberg is one of thousands of planets plunged into darkness and chaos bythe collapse of the galactic republic, but where other worlds have begun torebuild a star-travelling culture, Duisberg remains in an uneasy balance betweenmud-brick civilization and bloodthirsty barbarism. The people of Duisberg have agod: Zentrum, a supercomputer from the ancient past. Zentrum has decided toavoid another collapse by preventing civilization from rising from where it is.This is known as the Stasis. And because even a supercomputer and the powerfulreligion which it founded cannot block all progress, Zentrum has another tool:every few centuries the barbarians sweep in from the desert, slaughtering theeducated classes and cowing the peasants back into submission. These are theBlood Winds, and the Blood Winds are about to blow again. This time, however,there’s a difference: Abel Dashian, son of a military officer, has received intohis mind the spirit of Raj Whitehall, the most successful general in the historyof the planet Bellevue — and of Center, the supercomputer which enabledRaj to shatter his planet’s barbarians and permit the return of civilization.One hero can’t stop the tide of barbarians unless he has his own culturesupporting him. To save Duisberg, Abel must conquer the very land of his originand attempt to destroy the computer A.I. “god” who has doomed hisworld to an everlasting Dark Age. Abel is a heretic, but now he must go beyondand become — The Savior.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781476736709 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1476736707 |
| Author: | Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. |
| Publisher: | Baen Books |
| Imprint: | Baen Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2014 |
| Weight: | 612g |
| Dimensions: | 41mm x 152mm x 236mm |
| Series: | General (Drake) |
| Audience Age: | 16 |
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The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn’t run fast enough to get away. Dave returned to become Chapel Hill’s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences. Dave describes war from where he saw it: the loader’s hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His books include the genre-defining and bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series, the RCN series including What Distant Deeps, In the Stormy Red Sky, The Way to Glory, and many more. His bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF. He often wishes he had a less interesting background. Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina.
Tony Daniel is the author of eight science fiction books, the latest of which is Guardian of Night, as well as an award-winning short story collection, The Robot’s Twilight Companion. He is the coauthor, with David Drake, of General series entries The Heretic and The Savior. He is also the author of Star Trek Original Series novels Devil’s Bargain and Savage Trade. Daniel is a Hugo finalist for his story “Life on the Moon,” which also won the Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Award. Daniel’s short fiction has been much anthologized and has been collected in multiple year’s best compilations. Daniel has also cowritten screenplays for SyFy Channel and the Chiller Chanel. During the early 2000s was the writer and director of numerous audio dramas for critically-acclaimed SCIFI.COM’s Seeing Ear Theatre. Born in Alabama, Daniel has lived in St. Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Prague, and New York City. He now lives in Wake Forest, North Carolina with his wife and two children.
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