Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:
• Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover
• Creases, marks, or tears on pages or dust jacket
• Possible remainder marks or previous owner’s name/notes inside
Cover art: Paul Lehr
Blurb: “Once there was a mighty empire spanning the stars.
Once there had been great emperors ruling hundreds of inhabited planets, patrolling the star lanes with fleets of starcruisers, built to the perfection of a technology never before reached by man.
And like all empires in human history, that one, the greatest of them all, declined and fell.
Its colony worlds were left to themselves, falling into a galactic Dark Age of ignorance, barbarism, superstition. But they had one heritage in common - the imperial starships still functioned. They were self-repairing, foolproof, impervious, and obeyed the commands of any who reached their simplified controls.
This is the basis of John Brunners panoramic novel, three novels in one book: the saga of those who tried to climb out of the New Dark to a New Renaissance - with only the aging but still functioning starships to sustain their efforts.
It's Brunner in the Grand Tradition!”