The Castle in Cassiopeia
Pyr · Print & ebook · August 22, 2017
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- Who it’s for
- A kidnapped general, a Democracy-raised clone, and a mission across militarized alien defenses.
- Themes
- Cloning and identity, Military power, Human-alien conflict
- Genres
- Space Opera, Military Sci-Fi, Sci-Fi Adventure
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A crisis has arisen. On their first mission as a team, Pretorius and his Dead Enders kidnapped the real General Michkag and substituted a clone who had been raised and trained in the Democracy. But now they find that the clone likes being the most powerful man in the hundred-world Traanskei Coalititon—and having been raised on Earth, he knows how humans think and react. This becomes a many-layered problem for Pretorius and what is left of his Dead Enders.
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As the only humans on a totally militarized alien world, they must first find where the best-guarded member of the enemy's military - Michkag - is hiding and how many aliens, or regiments, or divisions, are guarding him, and then they must find a way past all his lines of defense to kill or capture him.
The Michkag Clone
A kidnapped general, a Democracy-raised clone, and a mission across militarized alien defenses.
Come here for
- A Democracy-raised clone who prefers command
- A search for the captured general across enemy defenses
Expect
- Humans operating alone on a militarized alien world
Where it sits
| Military Sci-Fi | 91% |
|---|---|
| Space Opera | 77% |
| Sci-Fi Adventure | 52% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Space Opera
- Military Sci-Fi
- Space Exploration Fiction
- Authors
- Mike Resnick
- Publisher
- Pyr
- Published
- August 22, 2017
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Cloning and identity · Military power · Human-alien conflict
- Reading lane
- Space Opera