No longer a brash, young ensign, Captain Dominic Flandry has risen in rank, but 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.
Though through this and his succeeding adventures he will struggle gloriously and snatch victory from the alien jaws of defeat, Flandry is yet a tragic figure: a man who knows too much history, who knows that battle, scheme, and even betray as he will, in the end it will mean nothing. For with the relentlessness of physical law the Empire is falling 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.
Af Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Clifford D. Simak, Ernest Kinoy, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, George Lefferts, J.T. McIntosh, James Blish, L. Sprague de Camp, Philip K. Dick, Poul Anderson, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Block, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Theodore Sturgeon, Thomas Godwin, William Tenn
Af Robert Silverberg, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, Poul Anderson, Fritz Leiber, James Blish, George Lefferts, Clifford D. Simak, J.T. McIntosh, Isaac Asimov, Robert Block, L. Sprague de Camp, Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Kick, Ernest Kinoy, Thomas Godwin, Robert Sheckley, William Tenn
Af Robert Silverberg, Robert Sheckley, Poul Anderson, Frederik Pohl, Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Thomas Godwin, Ernest Kinoy, James Blish, Clifford D. Simak, J.T. McIntosh, Philip K. Kick, William Tenn, Robert Block, L. Sprague de Camp, George Lefferts, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov