Wildeblood's Empire

Book Details

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Author(s):

Brian M Stableford

First Pub:

1977

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

2021

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Internal ID:

2569

Series:

<- Critical Threshold - The City of the Sun ->

Daedalus Mission*

#3 of 6

Daedalus Mission*

A series of books by Brian M Stableford originally published by Daw Books.

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1) The Florians
2) Critical Threshold
3) Wildeblood's Empire
4) The City of the Sun
5) Balance of Power
6) The Paradox of the Sets

Copyright:

Dedication:

No dedication.

First Sentence:

I left the house by a small door at the back that had been left on the latch.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

So much for the art of the attainable.

Comments:

No comments on file

Synopsis not on file
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Added: 02-Nov-2019

Last Updated: 23-Aug-2022

Quotes

It is illogical, you see, to have a law which says 'guns are forbidden' when no one to whom the law applies is permitted to know the meaning of the word. Far more orderly to dispense with the concept altogether. At the moment, they withhold only the objects, and information. But it is only logical that they should also try to withhold ideas. You cannot control knowledge without controlling discovery, and you cannot control discovery without controlling thought, and when you control thought... do you see what I'm getting at...

Wildeblood's Empire
Brian M Stableford

Publications

18-Oct-1977

DAW Books

Paperback

Date Issued:

18-Oct-1977

Format:

Paperback

Cover Price:

$1.50

Pages*:

192

Catalog ID:

UW1331

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 5 Feb 2021 - 19 Feb 2021

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

1791

Publisher:

DAW Books

ISBN:

0-879-97331-5

ISBN-13:

978-0-879-97331-5

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Michael Whelan - Cover Artist

THE
DAEDELUS MISSION: 3

The colony was successful. That was evident as soon as the recontact ship Daedalus had landed. It was successful, prosperous, and everything was due to the work and genius of J. Wildeblood, biochemist and planetary leader.

This world now bore the name of its benefactor. And it was truly his empire, with a grateful, hard-working people heeding every wish of his descendants.

But the suspicious scientific minds of the Daedalus's special crew were very uneasy. Was Wildeblood's Empire all it seemed - or was there a structure invisible to the eyewhich spelled out something a lot more blood-curdling?

Once again the talented hand of Brian M. Stableford shapes a world-sized mystery that only solid science could solve.

A DAW ORIGINAL
- NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK -

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Printing, October 1977
First printing based on the number line

Author(s)

Brian M Stableford
Birth: 25 Jul 1948 Shipley, Yorkshire, England, UK

Awards

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