The Savior

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Marc Notes: One hero can't stop a tide of barbarians unless he has his own culture supporting him. To save his planet, Abel must conquer the very land of his origin and attempt to destroy the computer 'god' who has doomed his world to an everlasting dark age. He is a heretic, but now he must go beyond and become ... the Saviour. Biographical Note: The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn't run fast enough to get away. Drake returned to become Chapel Hill's Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences. Drake describes war from where he saw it: the loader's hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His books include the bestselling Hammer's Slammers series, the RCN series including "What Distant Deeps, In the Stormy Red Sky, The Way to Glory, "and many more. His bestselling Hammer's Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF. He often wishes he had a less interesting background. Drake lives with his family in rural North Carolina. Tony Daniel is the author of eight science fiction books, the latest of which is "Guardian of Night," as well as an award-winning short story collection, "The Robot's Twilight Companion." He is the coauthor, with David Drake, of General series entries "The Heretic "and "The Savior. "He is also the author of Star Trek Original Series novels "Devil's Bargain "and "Savage Trade. "Daniel is a Hugo finalist for his story "Life on the Moon," which also won the Asimov's Reader's Choice Award. Daniel's short fiction has been much anthologized and has been collected in multiple year's best compilations. Daniel has also cowritten screenplays for SyFy Channel and the Chiller Chanel. During the early 2000s was the writer and director of numerous audio dramas for critically-acclaimed SCIFI. COM's Seeing Ear Theatre. Born in Alabama, Daniel has lived in St. Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Prague, and New York City. He now lives in Wake Forest, North Carolina with his wife and two children. Publisher Marketing: Sequel to "The Heretic, "Book 10 in the nationally best-selling General series. FROM HERETIC TO SAVIOR Duisberg is one of thousands of planets plunged into darkness and chaos by the collapse of the galactic republic. But where other worlds have begun to rebuild a star-travelling culture, Duisberg remains in an uneasy balance between mud-brick civilization and bloodthirsty barbarism. The people of Duisberg have a god: Zentrum, a supercomputer from the ancient past. Zentrum has decided to avoid another collapse by preventing civilization from rising from where it is. And because even a supercomputer and the powerful religion which it founded cannot block all progress, Zentrum has another tool: every few centuries the barbarians sweep in from the desert, slaughtering the educated classes and cowing the peasants back into submission. These are the Blood Winds, and the Blood Winds are about to blow again. This time, however, there's a difference: Abel Dashian, son of a military officer, has received into his mind the spirit of Raj Whitehall, the most successful general in the history of the planet Bellevue--and of Center, the supercomputer which enabled Raj to shatter his planet's barbarians and permit the return of civilization. One hero can't stop the tide of barbarians unless he has his own culture supporting him. To save Duisberg, Abel must conquer the very land of his origin and attempt to destroy the computer A. I. "god" who has doomed his world to an everlasting Dark Age. Abel is a heretic, but now he must go beyond and become--THE SAVIOR. About "The Savior: """""""The Savior "is a sequel worth waiting for. There is more of everything inside; military strategy and war, backstory and human drama, all at higher stakes . . . Tony Daniel and David Drake pick up where they left off and run, without stumbling, toward a fantastic conclusion . . . As much as I like military Science Fiction, I dont want to read battle after battle. "The Savior" delivers so much more. The stories of Abel's many allies are just as compelling. I found the conclusion of the book to be immensely satisfying." "-"""SF Crowsnest"""""""."" . . the cost in blood is high and the descriptions of gunpowder age tactics are solid . . . conceptually intriguing."-"""Publishers Weekly"""About "The Savior "prequel, "The Heretic: ""More than once, I envied Abel's 'gift.' If you count having the voice of a computer and the recreation of a famous general in your head as a gift . . . An interesting relationship that elevates [the novel] to something unique. . . I loved the battles and I found Abel to be an engaging character. I adored Golitsin, his priest friend."--"SF Crowsnest" About the Raj Whitehall series: "[T]old with knowledge of military tactics and hardware, and vividly described action . . . devotees of military SF should enjoy themselves."--"Publishers Weekly" "[A] thoroughly engrossing military sf series . . . superb battle scenes, ingenious weaponry and tactics, homages to Kipling, and many other goodies. High fun."--"Booklist" About David Drake: "[P]rose as cold and hard s the metal alloy of a tank ... rivals Crane and Remarque ..." -"Chicago Sun-Times" "Drake couldn't write a bad action scene at gunpoint." -"Booklist" About Tony Daniel: "[D]azzling stuff."-"New York Times Book Review " "[His work] teems with vivid characters and surprising action.""-Publishers Weekly (starred review) " "Daniel proves that the Golden Age of science fiction is right here and now."-Greg Bear" " "[A] large cast of utterly graspable humans, mostly military and political folks, of all ranks and capacities and temperments. Daniel has a keen eye for the kinds of in extremis thinking and behavior that such a wartime situation would engender. . . . Following in the footsteps of Poul Anderson and Greg Bear . . ."--"Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine "on Daniel's "Guardian of Night " The General Series"The Forge"S. M. Stirling David Drake "The Hammer" S. M. Stirling David Drake "The Anvil " S. M. 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Publishers Weekly 07/28/2014 (EAN 9781476736709, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Daniel, Tony Tony Daniel is the author of the novels Earthling and Warpath, along with the pioneering and well-received Metaplanetary, to which Superluminal is a sequel. Daniel heads up the New York City theater troupe Automatic Vaudeville, which produces independent films. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter. Contributor Bio:  Drake, David David Drake (born 1945) sold his first story (a fantasy) at age 20. His undergraduate majors at the University of Iowa were history (with honors) and Latin (BA, 1967). He uses his training in both subjects extensively in his fiction. David entered Duke Law School in 1967 and graduated five years later (JD, 1972). The delay was caused by his being drafted into the US Army. He served in 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, the Blackhorse, in Viet Nam and Cambodia. He has used his legal and particularly his military experiences extensively in his fiction also. David practiced law for eight years; drove a city bus for one year; and has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981. He reads and travels extensively.