Salvage and Destroy

By Edward Llewellyn

Book Overview

A story of space invasion and adventure in the far distant future of Earth versus a Galactic Empire; This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879978988
• ISBN13: 9780879978983
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Daw Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Simply a masterpiece: ambitious, well-written, and timely

Llewellyn has been severly overlooked by the science-fiction community, and I've never understood why. Like Heinlein, Azimov, and a number of other great authors, he has written a series of novels based on carefully thought-out future history, a history which is extremely conceivable. Most of these novels are set before, during, and at various periods after the mankind's numbers on Earth are severely cut-down due to unforseen side-effects of wonder-drugs and chemicals which render a huge portion of the world's population sterile. All of his books have great character development, compelling story-lines, and characters one can identify with.Salvage and Destroy is set in the same future history, but the protagonist is an alien from a distant empire who is sent by his decaying and corrupt government to Earth in the late 20th Century to "Salvage" what he can from a world which seems poised on the brink of nuclear destruction, and to "Destroy" the satellite placed in the solar system lest humans find it and follow its broadcast trail to their own empire. The story weaves together many complicated items extremely well... politics, ancient foes, and most especially what it means to be human, and what is the nature of God and the Universe. There are few books I can recommend more than this one... my review here doesn't do it justice, and I regret that. But if you've stumbled acrosss this review, I implore you to order this book... if you like science-fiction, you'll like this book.