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Informationen zum Autor S.M. Stirling is the New York Times best-selling author of the Draka series, the Lords of Creation series, and the Emberverse series, among others. With David Drake, he is the author of several novels in the General series. He cowrote novels in the Falkenberg's Legion series with Jerry Pournelle. He lives in New Mexico. Klappentext "The Sword and The Chosen in one volume. For five years Raj Whitehall has led his men across the planet Bellevue and conquered one barbarian nation after another. Now his greatest enemy is his own overlord who's so paranoid of Raj's victories that he wants him dead. Then, planted by interstellar probes on hundreds of human-occupied worlds, the downloaded personalities of Raj Whitehall and Center work together for planetary unity. On Visager, two young men once at odds in war must unite and, with the aid of disembodied voices of their mentors from the stars, stand against exporting eternal tyranny to the galaxy itself"-- Zusammenfassung The Empire of Man has fallen and a new Dark Age is upon the stars. With planets cut off and reduced to subsistence and ignorance! humanity has nearly forgotten its past greatness. But one battle computer has survived the Collapse. He is Center. And Center is determined to find and aid leaders who can return a star-faring republic to the galaxy.
