Pawn's Gambit: And Other Stratagems

✍ Scribed by Zahn, Timothy

• Book ID: 109346355
• Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 252 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781504016209

✦ Synopsis

This collection showcases the career-launching short fiction of Timothy Zahn, acclaimed author of Blackcollar, the Quadrail series, and the #1 New York Times bestseller *Star Wars: Heir to the Empire*

The pieces included in Pawn�s Gambit range from the adventure science fiction Timothy Zahn is famous for to post-apocalyptic tales and humorous fantasy. In �The Price of Survival,� an alien ship arrives in our solar system without hostile intentions�but with a desperate need that could destroy humanity. �The Giftie Gie Us� is set in a post-apocalyptic United States, in which two lonely survivors find love among the ruins. And in the title story, a human and his alien opponent face off over a game that will decide which one of them will return home�and which will not. This collection also includes the Hugo Award�winning novella Cascade Point and eight stories previously unpublished in book form.

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