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The Domination - Couverture rigide

Stirling, S. M.

 
9780671577940: The Domination
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0671577948 ISBN 13 : 9780671577940
Editeur : Baen Books, 1999

Synopsis

Originally published as three separate volumes, S.M. Stirling's masterly alternate history tells of the rise to power of the Domination of the Draka and its long struggle with the American-led Alliance for Democracy. Beginning in the rich subcontinent of South Africa, the people calling themselves the Draka - disaffected refugees from the American Revolution - first forged an empire of inconceivable wealth and savagery, founded on conquest and slavery. Spanning the whole of the African continent, the Great War of the early twentieth century gave it much of Asia as well. Then in the Eurasian War, Germany and the Soviet Union exhausted one another and the Draka stepped in, leaving the Domination triumphant from the English Channel to the China Sea. Only America and its allies stands between the Draka and their dream of an enslaved planet. By the 1990s the Draka commanded the stuff of life itself, mastering biotechnology until they could create new species at will - and transform themselves into the Master Race of their savage dreams. Meanwhile the Alliance for Democracy travelled another path, into the mysteries of the physical universe and the knowledge to be gained there. The final confrontation would settle which was the more powerful ...or it would leave the earth a lifeless rock on which nothing human remained but bones.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Originally published as three separate volumes, S.M. Stirling's masterly alternate history tells of the rise to power of the Domination of the Draka and its long struggle with the American-led Alliance for Democracy. Beginning in the rich subcontinent of South Africa, the people calling themselves the Draka - disaffected refugees from the American Revolution - first forged an empire of inconceivable wealth and savagery, founded on conquest and slavery. Spanning the whole of the African continent, the Great War of the early twentieth century gave it much of Asia as well. Then in the Eurasian War, Germany and the Soviet Union exhausted one another and the Draka stepped in, leaving the Domination triumphant from the English Channel to the China Sea. Only America and its allies stands between the Draka and their dream of an enslaved planet.
By the 1990s the Draka commanded the stuff of life itself, mastering biotechnology until they could create new species at will - and transform themselves into the Master Race of their savage dreams. Meanwhile the Alliance for Democracy travelled another path, into the mysteries of the physical universe and the knowledge to be gained there. The final confrontation would settle which was the more powerful . . . or it would leave the earth a lifeless rock on which nothing human remained but bones.

Biographie de l'auteur

S.M. Stirling is best known as the author of the 'Draka' series of alternate histories, among them Marching Through Georgia, Under the Yoke, The Stone Dogs and the related title, Drakon. His other books include bestselling SF collaborations such as The City Who Fought (with Anne McCaffrey) and 'The General' alternate history series (with David Drake), as well as a solo contribution to Anne McCaffrey's 'Ship' series: The Ship Avenged.

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Éditeur
Baen Books
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0671577948
ISBN 13 
9780671577940
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
784
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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