Series: Misc
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0812531205
Publisher: Tor Books
Reader Rating: 5 out of 10
Votes: 2
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0812531205
Publisher: Tor Books
Reader Rating: 5 out of 10
Votes: 2
Description: Piers Anthony's novel attempt to combine history education with science fiction. An entertaining read that teaches about the times of Mongol warriors, couched as "reality TV" in the future.
(from the back cover)
At the moment of his death, Alp, a powerful and cunning Turkish warrior chieftain, is thrust naked, weaponless and horseless into a bewildering world that her perceives as hell. He soon discovers that the hell he inhabits is filled not with demons, but a race of humans known as Galactics from an age far removed from his own. He has been chosen to fight, and perhaps die again, in a vast intergalactic game called Steppe-a strange recreation of his own era where horses are starships, cities are planets and mountains are suns.
Alp has always been a victor in the bloody struggle for survival among his people. Will his barbarian cunning be enough to defeat the intellectual might of the Galactics and by his knowledge of his own time win a place for himself among the stars?
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