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A brother and sister just entering their twenties, surviving with grit and
courage on a frontier planet—on the eve of galactic revolution! Down with
the Empire! David Drake science fiction classic reissued for a young adult
audience 14 and up.
THE FRONTIER: TWENTY-FIFTH CENTURY STYLE
Mark
Maxwell is a young man from Quelhagen, a colonial planet nearly as civilized as
Earth herself. He's touring the distant fringes of human settlement to complete
his education.
Amy Bannock was born on the frontier, but she's been
raised with as much gentility and culture as the environment
permits.
Yerby Bannock, Amy's brother, is a big, powerful sort who is
always cheeful—and most happy when he's clearing a room in a
brawl.
Together the three of them are on hand to protect the raw colony
of Greenwood from speculators—using the courts when they can and using
brute force when that's the only method that works.
Brute force is always
Yerby's method of choice, but he's generally willing to listen to Mark and Amy
when he figures they have a point.
It's a story that sweeps from
sprawling farms to courtrooms, from rain-sodden transfer points to luxury
hotels. Conflict may mean a fistfight, a violent kidnapping, or tanks rolling
down the street side by side.
But underneath the squabbles and
skirmishes, there's the threat of a revolution which will pit the colonies
against their mother world, Earth. If revolution comes, Mark, Amy and Yerby will
be in that middle of it too.
And the revolution is coming!
