ISBN: 0812513568
ISBN13: 9780812513561
Birds of Prey
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ISBN: 0812513568
ISBN13: 9780812513561
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A readable copy with all pages intact.
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A readable copy with all pages intact.
Book Overview
<DIV><DIV>Rome, 262 A.D: It had been the capital of the greatest civilization on Earth. Now both city and civilization are dying. Imperial unity has shattered as separatist and usurpers squabble among themselves and greater enemies gather to swallow them all. One man stands between humanity and the Long Night, matching his savage determination against a hopeless future. He is Aulus Perennius, an Imperial secret agent as tough and ruthless as the age in which he lives. Until now, though, his enemies have all been human.</DIV></DIV> This description may be from another edition of this product.
- Format:
- Mass Market Paperback
- Language:
- English
- ISBN:
- 0812513568
- ISBN13:
- 9780812513561
- Release Date:
- May 1991
- Publisher:
- Tor Books
- Length:
- 352 Pages
- Weight:
- 0.45 lbs.
- Dimensions:
- 1.0″ × 4.3″ × 6.8″
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David Drake was attending Duke University Law School when he was drafted. He served the next two years in the Army, spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th armored Cavalry in Viet Nam and Cambodia. Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke and was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981. Besides the bestselling Hammer's Slammers series, his books for Baen include With the Lightnings and its sequel Lt. Leary, Commanding, Ranks of Bronze, Starliner, All the Way to the Gallows, Redliners, and many more. His most recent novels are Paying the Piper, a new Hammer's Slammers novel, and The Far Side of the Stars, the latest in the popular Lt. Leary series. Jim Baen has been the editor of Galaxy magazine, of Ace Books, of Tor Books, and has for two decades helmed Baen Books, a powerhouse in science fiction publishing and the world's leading publisher of military science fiction. Eric Flint's impressive first novel, Mother of Demons (Baen), was selected by SF Chronicle as one of the best novels of 1997. His next solo novel, 1632, sold out its first hardcover printing and went back to press almost immediately, and received enthusiastic critical praise. With David Drake he has written five popular novels in the Belisarius series. Flint has also begun a highly-praised fantasy adventure series, so far comprising The Philosophical Strangler and Forward the Mage. Flint received his masters degree in history from UCLA and was for many years a labor union activist. He lives in East Chicago, IN, with his wife.
Customer Reviews
Good yarn - SciFi in Ancient Rome
A lot of our Sci-fi books look at alien invasion in the current time. What if aliens had invaded in the past and been defeated? Aulus Perennius is a roman imperial spy who is recruited by a mysterious person to help track down and destroy a small group of aliens who have landed in the Roman Empire.Drake tells a good fast paced story within a well researched Roman Empire setting which gives the book a good authentic feel. He avoids the worst excesses of ray-gun sci-fi, while introducing comic elements such as an early christian cult who try a little too hard to worship the cruxicifiction, a displaced allosaurus who has a taste for donkeys and a nerve wracking naval battle in a hundred year old ship which is ready to fall apart.A highly enjoyable read which won't put too much strain on the brain cells. Good fun!
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A Good Read
I too am suprised by the negative reviews.This is a good read combining Roman history and futuristic technology expertly. It isn't an easy thing combining two different generes but Drake pulls it off. Instead of plodding I felt that the story progressed steadily building on top of each new development. The reader identifies with the Roman agent and therefore as he learns more so do you. For Roman buffs there is also a nice twist at the end. I never saw it coming. An enertaining read.
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Well Worth the Read
While not quite as good as his most recent works--Drake keeps improving from excellent to nearly perfect--I highly recommend this title. It was the first Drake work I read, and has kept me watching for his titles ever since. Naturally, if the combination of a Roman historical setting and a vicious alien threat are not to your liking, this is not the volume for you...
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A Solid Example of Drake's Roman SF
I was surprised to see some low reviews of this one. It's a good, solid example of the same trademark combination of history (especially military history) and high-tech aliens as Drake's better-known Belisarius series. Theme: war is war, from the ancient past to the distant future, and the human mind is more important than the technology it faces.Drake's been there and knows his stuff, and he writes as convincingly about swords and armor as he does about the tanks he knew in Vietnam.
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