Fire Time Author:Poul Anderson Every thousand years Fire Time came to Ishtar... a time when the giant red sun Anu approached, scorching the planet and driving the barbarian hordes from the north....Perhaps this time Ishtar?s civilization would survive the barbaric onslaught. But a warlord had arisen among the invaders--and under Arnanak, the Tassui were relentlessly sweeping ... more »south... bringing even more destruction than the death-dealing rays of the Demon Sun.
Suddenly the men of Earth, stationed on Ishtar, found themselves torn between the two warring factions...« less