Wheeled craft and groundworkers swarmed around ranks of huge troop transporters and smaller two-winged fighter air vehicles and around the sky-piercing spires of the sleek solar space cruisers. Weapons and fuel were being loaded amid a rush of last-minute maintenance and checks. After the calm of...
The carved ramparts of red sandstone glowed with polished and intricate beauty in the bright mid-morning sun, and on leaving the palace, Raven strolled casually toward the nearest of these strange monuments to an even stranger faith. He could not understand the devotional psychology that had urge...
The mass funerals and all the individual funerals for the fallen lords and kings and champions were all completed. The prayers were recited, the lamentations sung, the tears wept, the sacrifices made. The broken spears and lances, the wrecked chariots and the vast log rafts cleared from the Mahan...