Nicholas van Rijn, the most flamboyant member of the Polesotechnic League of star traders, could see dark times ahead. Fellow league members were using tactics verging on outright piracy, and others were all too eager to sell starships and high-tech weapons to alien barbarians. A planet not previously known for interstellar commerce suddenly revealed a secret fleet of armed starships, and started building an empire. Even if Van Rijn and his right-hand man David Falkayn could find a way to stop this blatant aggression, the glory days of the League were over. Hereafter, for its own protection against well-armed alien marauders the Earth must maintain a strong military fleet, and one charismatic man would found an empire that would learn nothing of the lessons history taught about the fates of other empires as it began annexing other star systems, whether they wanted to join the Terran Empire or not . . .
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