Patriots
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1476781915
ISBN-13
9781476781914
Publisher
Baen Books
Imprint
Baen Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 25th, 2016
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
302 grams
Dimensions
21.10 x 14.00 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Science fiction
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A brother and sister just entering their twenties, surviving with grit andcourage on a frontier planet—on the eve of galactic revolution! Down withthe Empire! David Drake science fiction classic reissued for a young adultaudience 14 and up. THE FRONTIER: TWENTY-FIFTH CENTURY STYLEMarkMaxwell is a young man from Quelhagen, a colonial planet nearly as civilized asEarth herself. He's touring the distant fringes of human settlement to completehis education. Amy Bannock was born on the frontier, but she's beenraised with as much gentility and culture as the environmentpermits. Yerby Bannock, Amy's brother, is a big, powerful sort who isalways cheeful—and most happy when he's clearing a room in abrawl. Together the three of them are on hand to protect the raw colonyof Greenwood from speculators—using the courts when they can and usingbrute force when that's the only method that works. Brute force is alwaysYerby's method of choice, but he's generally willing to listen to Mark and Amywhen he figures they have a point. It’s a story that sweeps fromsprawling farms to courtrooms, from rain-sodden transfer points to luxuryhotels. Conflict may mean a fistfight, a violent kidnapping, or tanks rollingdown the street side by side. But underneath the squabbles andskirmishes, there's the threat of a revolution which will pit the coloniesagainst their mother world, Earth. If revolution comes, Mark, Amy and Yerby willbe in that middle of it too. And the revolution is coming!
A brother and sister just entering their twenties, surviving with grit andcourage on a frontier planet—on the eve of galactic revolution! Down withthe Empire! David Drake science fiction classic reissued for a young adultaudience 14 and up.
THE FRONTIER: TWENTY-FIFTH CENTURY STYLE
MarkMaxwell is a young man from Quelhagen, a colonial planet nearly as civilized asEarth herself. He''s touring the distant fringes of human settlement to completehis education.
Amy Bannock was born on the frontier, but she''s beenraised with as much gentility and culture as the environmentpermits.
Yerby Bannock, Amy''s brother, is a big, powerful sort who isalways cheeful—and most happy when he''s clearing a room in abrawl.
Together the three of them are on hand to protect the raw colonyof Greenwood from speculators—using the courts when they can and usingbrute force when that''s the only method that works.
Brute force is alwaysYerby''s method of choice, but he''s generally willing to listen to Mark and Amywhen he figures they have a point.
It’s a story that sweeps fromsprawling farms to courtrooms, from rain-sodden transfer points to luxuryhotels. Conflict may mean a fistfight, a violent kidnapping, or tanks rollingdown the street side by side.
But underneath the squabbles andskirmishes, there''s the threat of a revolution which will pit the coloniesagainst their mother world, Earth. If revolution comes, Mark, Amy and Yerby willbe in that middle of it too.
And the revolution is coming!
THE FRONTIER: TWENTY-FIFTH CENTURY STYLE
MarkMaxwell is a young man from Quelhagen, a colonial planet nearly as civilized asEarth herself. He''s touring the distant fringes of human settlement to completehis education.
Amy Bannock was born on the frontier, but she''s beenraised with as much gentility and culture as the environmentpermits.
Yerby Bannock, Amy''s brother, is a big, powerful sort who isalways cheeful—and most happy when he''s clearing a room in abrawl.
Together the three of them are on hand to protect the raw colonyof Greenwood from speculators—using the courts when they can and usingbrute force when that''s the only method that works.
Brute force is alwaysYerby''s method of choice, but he''s generally willing to listen to Mark and Amywhen he figures they have a point.
It’s a story that sweeps fromsprawling farms to courtrooms, from rain-sodden transfer points to luxuryhotels. Conflict may mean a fistfight, a violent kidnapping, or tanks rollingdown the street side by side.
But underneath the squabbles andskirmishes, there''s the threat of a revolution which will pit the coloniesagainst their mother world, Earth. If revolution comes, Mark, Amy and Yerby willbe in that middle of it too.
And the revolution is coming!
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