The warriors of spider
โ Scribed by W. Michael Gear; W. Michael Gear
- Publisher
- Daw Books, Inc
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 372 KB
- Edition
- 20th anniversary edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 1101666951
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The groundbreaking novel that launched Gear's sci-fi career, this 20th anniversary edition introduces readers to the thrilling Spider trilogy
The Directorate was run by the powerful few--genetically-altered humans permanently linked with the GI-net, the massive computer network that contained everything there was to know about the planets and space stations claimed by humankind. For centuries, the Directorate had ruled over countless star systems, its authority absolute and unquestioned. But now stirrings of rebellion were being felt in the far-flung commercial empire.
And at this crucial time, the Directorate had discovered a planet out beyond its farthest reaches, a place known only as World, where the descendants of humans stranded long ago by a starship crash had survived by becoming a race of warriors, a race led by its Prophets, men with the ability to see the many possible pathways of the future. Men who had already foreseen the coming of the...
โฆ Subjects
FICTION -- Science Fiction -- General
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