The Falling Torch Author:Algis Budrys The spaceship dropped them into the night--two men pitted against the mighty empire that held Earth as a slave planet. One was the anonymous agent of the mysterious "munitions firm" supplying weapons to Earth's Underground. The other was Michael Wireman--son of the last President of Free Earth. — Their mission was simple--and suicidal--to weld th... more »e underground guerrilla fighters into a force capable of beating the most powerful army in the Galaxy. Danger and death waited for them on Earth's nightside--but within him Michael Wireman held the weapon that could conquer Earth. The only trouble was...he didn't know he had it...
Here is a tense story of a future with strange parallels to our own time.« less