The City Among the Stars
- Kategoria:
- fantasy, science fiction
- Seria:
- Fiction Without Frontiers
- Tytuł oryginału:
- Pour patrie, l'espace (1962)
- Wydawnictwo:
- Flame Tree Press
- Data wydania:
- 2020-05-21
- Data 1. wydania:
- 1979-01-01
- Liczba stron:
- 232
- Czas czytania
- 3 godz. 52 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9781787584228
- Tłumacz:
- Judith Sullivan, Margaret Schiff
- Tagi:
- powieść francuska--II poł. 20 w. gwiezdne imperium
► This stunning classic stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov, and Heinlein. ◄ New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Tankar Holroy, Lieutenant in the Stellar Guard of earth’s Empire, floats in space after his spaceship is sabotaged. Rescued by an enormous, unknown ship, he awakes to discover himself saved by the People of the Stars who are born and live in space with minimal contact with planets and their occupants whom they call, with contempt, planetaries.
The chilly welcome he receives from the ship’s leader, the Teknor, is followed by overt hostility from the other inhabitants of the Tilsin. Tankar soon realizes that he was rescued for his knowledge of tracers, the technology that allows Empire ships to track others through hyperspace, a technology the People of the Stars lack. Out of spite, he refuses to deliver the one piece of knowledge that can protect the people who saved but now spurn him - and the consequences will be catastrophic.
Francis Carsac, a pseudonym for the world-renowned French scientist, geologist, and archaeologist Francois Bordes, wrote and published six novels during the golden age of science fiction.
Never before published in English, these novels resonate with timely issues ranging from climate control to racism and greed and tell the stories of characters whose challenges and triumphs clearly relate to many of the problems we encounter today. He has been translated and published into Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Hungarian, Estonian amongst others.