β Scribed by H. Beam Piper
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Should a nation's political climate guide its scientific agenda, or should research exist in a separate realm that's unaffected by these types of considerations? That's the question at the heart of The Mercenaries , a thought-provoking science fiction tale from H. Beam Piper. In a world divided by political schisms, one group of independent scientists fights to preserve its integrity at all costs.
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