Captain John Farragut and the crew of the U.S.S. Merrimack face their greatest challenge as Caesar Romulus declares war on the United States of America with a direct attack on Earth. The Merrimack retaliates with an assault on the Roman capital world of Palatine, and in the midst of the chaos, the H
The twice and future Caesar: a novel of the U.S.S. Merrimack
โ Scribed by R. M. Meluch
- Publisher
- DAW
- Year
- 2016;2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 325 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1101637382
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โฆ Synopsis
For fans of explosive military science fiction with complex worldbuilding.- "Rousing far-future sci-fi novel...grand old-fashioned space opera." โPublishers Weekly (starred)
In the year 2448, the interstellar Empire of Rome spans an area almost as wide as the far-flung colonial worlds of the United States of America.
Caesar Numa Pompeii is still rebuilding his shredded empire after the catastrophic war that his predecessor, Caesar Romulus, waged against the United States. War's end left Romulus in a nanovirus-induced coma, captive of Caesar Numa.
Numa has under his command a powerful living weaponโa patterner, an augmented man capable of synthesizing vast amounts of data into actionable intelligence.
Now, Numa has lost his prisoner, and his patterner may have turned on him, while the U.S.S. Merrimack has lost the commander of her Fleet Marines, Colonel T. R. Steele.
Events take a Mobius turn when...
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