Series: Misc
Genre: SF
Pages: 370 pages
Publisher: Arbor House
Reader Rating: Not rated
Genre: SF
Pages: 370 pages
Publisher: Arbor House
Reader Rating: Not rated
Description: The human race is at war with the Ged, a collective species that is baffled by mankind’s ability to turn violence upon itself and yet advance into space. In order to defeat the humans, the Ged must first understand them.
So they go to a world called Qom, where a lost Earth colony has forgotten it’s origins and regressed to pre-industrial society. They are split into two warring city-states: Delysia, town of merchants, and Jela of Spartan wariors. The Ged build a walled city out in the wilderness, promising riches and new weapons for anyone brave enough to stay in the city one year.
The offer attracts a diverse collection of outcasts and adventurers, Jelite warriors and Delysian artisans. Once inside, they are taught the secrets of science and technology. In watching them learn, the Ged hope to find out how humans think. But they don’t anticipate the few humans who will cross feudal boundaries to unite against the Ged, deducing more than the Ged meant to teach about the nature of the universe and the origin of humans on Qom.
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