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Masks of the Martyrs

64.3% complete
1988
2023
1 time
See 14
Who Came in Late
Prologue - Status Report
1 - The Trouble with Cnahchuk
2 - Facing the Inevitable
3 - Four Parrots and One Goose Cooked, with Fireworks
4 - Reflections Toward an Ending
5 - Up a Tree
6 - Cowboys and Indians
7 - The Ring of Rings
8 - The Malebolge Run
9 - The Final Battle
10 - The Masks of the Martyrs
11 - The Face of the Enemy
Epilogue - Two Characters Meet in Different Seasons
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 Rings of the Master*
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Rings of the Master*     See series as if on a bookshelf
A four book science fiction series by Jack L Chalker.

1) Lords of the Middle Dark
2) Pirates of the Thunder
3) Warriors of the Storm
4) Masks of the Martyrs
Copyright © 1988 by Jack L. Chalker
For Clifford D. Simak
The nice thing about being dead was that you could, without any fear or guilt, do all those things that were dangerous or unacceptable when one was alive.
May contain spoilers
"I suppose it's a start..."
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Added: 19-Apr-2022
Last Updated: 04-Oct-2024

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Humans have historically distrusted and disliked one another to the point of murder and war over such minor differences as religion, color, language, and the like.  That's one rationale Master System had for keeping each colonial world a homogenous race and culture.  Yet my children could never truly comprehend why a Crow or a Sioux or a Cheyenne - or a Janipurian or a Chanchukian or even an Alititian - should be judged in any way but by what kind of people they are.  But such things have always worked on a small scale, Nagy, particularly when we are crisis-driven or bound together by mutual self-interest, but never in the mass.  That is our tragedy.  Never in the mass.


Masks of the Martyrs
Jack L Chalker
Walks with the Night Hawks

Publications

 01-Feb-1991
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Feb-1991
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$4.95
Pages*:
340
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   12 Nov 2023 - 23 Nov 2023
Internal ID:
2519
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-345-34309-3
Printing:
7
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Darrell K Sweet  - Cover Artist
ENIGMATIC
SOLUTION


Even before the renegade pirates of the giant spaceship Thunder had collected all five of the rings that would eliminate the threat of Master System forever, hawks knew that they still faced even greater problems.

The shapechanger, Vulture, was lost on the watery planet of Chanchuk, his fate unknown.  Master System's space fleet dogged the renegades' every step.  Hawks suspected that the group was harboring a traitor, but he was powerless to act.  And, most important, the rebels has not yet figured out how the rings were used - a riddle that seemed to have no solution!

Somewhere back on Earth lay the original computer interface, and somewhere in the distant past lay the secret to Master System's demise.  As a historian, Hawks had the knowledge to solve the riddle, yet he had to be absolutely sure - for one misstep would destroy them all.
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Notes and Comments:
First Edition: February 1988
Seventh Printing: February 1991
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01-Feb-1991
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback

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Author(s)

 Jack L Chalker
Birth: 17 Dec 1944 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Death: 11 Feb 2005 Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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