| The Madness Season Contributor(s): Friedman, C. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0886774446 ISBN-13: 9780886774448 Publisher: Daw Books OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: October 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Alien Contact - Fiction | Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011658274 |
| Series: Daw Book Collectors |
| Physical Information: 1.37" H x 4.34" W x 7.06" (0.53 lbs) 496 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Three hundred years had passed since the Tyr conquered the people of Earth as they had previously overcome numerous races throughout the galaxy. In their victory they had taken the very heart out of the human race, isolating the true individualists, the geniuses, all the people who represented the hopes, dreams, and discoveries of the future, and imprisoning them in dome colonies on planets hostile to human life. There the Tyr, a race which itself shared a unified gestalt mind, had left these gifted individuals to work on projects which would, the conquerers hoped, reveal all of human kind's secrets to them. Yet Daetrin's secret as one no scientist had ever uncovered, for down through the years he had succeeded in burying it so well that he had even hidden his real nature from himself. But, taken into custody by the Tyr, there was no longer any place left for Daetrin to run, no new name and life for him to assume. Now he would at last be forced to confront the truth about himself--and if he failed, not just Daetrin but all humans would pay the price... |