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Series: Misc
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0446526681
Pages: 480 pages
Publisher: Warner Aspect
Price: $24.95
Reader Rating: 8 out of 10
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Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes

Description: In ancient times, Socrates fled Athens for the courts of Egypt, setting in motion events that led to Carthage destroying Rome. A millennium later, by the grace of Allah, Muhammad received the Qur'an. And the Prophet's apostle Bilal was granted a vision that Islam's destiny lay far across the western ocean, in a New World...

One of the nation's premier African-American science fiction writers, multiple-award nominee Steven Barnes here presents a passionate and richly imagined epic of courage, survival, and revelation on a slave plantation in the old South...the African-ruled South.