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Prime Mover (Royal Fireworks Science Fiction)
Prime Mover - Royal Fireworks Science Fiction Author:Bill Coffin A science-fiction novel from the author of Overmind, this is an action-packed, literature, high-tech war novel. Nearly a century and a half after the beginning of the Terran Expansion, the interstellar conglomeration of nation-states, social collectives, corporations and other econopolitical organisms known as the Eastern Rim began to buc... more »kle under the weight of growing balkanization and political instability. In addition, the dozens of intelligent species assimilated into the Eastern Rim had grown frustrated with its Terran- dominated power structure. Without any form of centralized authority governing the known universe, however, the Eastern Rim was a place in which few could survive without employing some kind of Terran regulatory muscle. As the Eastern Rim continued to devolve into anarchy, much of the galactic community finally exhausted its collective patience for their Terran masters, whose accidental discovery of faster-than-light travel formed the foundation of their econopolitical power. Across the Eastern Rim, Terrans became seen as luckyif not undeservingrecipients of galactic authority, a position many nonTerran species felt equally entitled to, and were willing to fight for. Civil War erupted and resulted in less control by the Terrans as well as less protection for the weakend Eastern Rim. A spectacular invasion by the Kobvandali, a radically advanced alien warfleet with an unidentified form of propulsion, scourges 41 systems and leaves 391 trillion dead across the Eastern Rim. The devestation of the invasion forces the alliance of the Terran Protectorate and a number of independent military forces. The Kobvandali are ambushed and defeated, and the Eastern Rim begins to rebuild. At this time, the action opens with a civil disturbance on the battered remains of the planet that used to be called Earth. The action is seen through the eyes of a diverse group of individuals, and it builds to an exciting conclusion as their experience, passions, and ideologies play out against that warfare raging on a galactic scale.« less
ISBN-13: 9780880923491 ISBN-10: 0880923490 Pages:465 Reading Level: Young Adult Rating: