A press release from Ian Randal Strock’s Fantastic Books:
Following our success with A Song in Stone, Fantastic Books is pleased to announce that we’ve just brought Walter H. Hunt’s The Dark Wing, back into print. The novel, Hunt’s first, is the first in his four-volume series of hard military science fiction, and was originally published in 20
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Praised by Nebula-winner Robert J. Sawyer as “a rollicking, compelling, wonderful debut—the pages fly by at warp speed,” Publishers Weekly called the book “a bravura performance,” and SFRevu said it was “a brilliant first novel.”
Now it’s available as a 356-page trade paperback (ISBN: 978-1-61720-734-1). And in a coup for Fantastic Books, we’re able to present it with the original cover art by Dave Seeley.
Book description:
Mankind faces extinction at alien hands. The only thing standing in their way?
THE DARK WING
The birdlike zor are just one of the alien races that humanity encounters when it travels to the stars, and from the very first meeting it has been all-out war. For many years the conflicts have been sporadic, usually ending with an Earth concession and a treaty. But the zor do not respect mankind and have no intention of honoring the agreements. When the zor decide to mount a surprise attack against human colonies, the normally self-absorbed government of Earth realizes that something must be done before it is too late.
A controversial scholar by the name of Ivan Hector Charles Marais, a former admiral, is brought in to take command of the Space Navy and defeat the enemy. Marais has spent his entire life studying the zor and claims to have a plan to deal with them once and for all. With so few options remaining, Marais is put in charge of the battlefleet.
Earth just wants the threat neutralized and would be happy with a stalemate, but Marais has other ideas. He presents himself as the Dark Wing of zor mythology, destined to exterminate the zor, and unwilling to accept a return to the status quo.
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