Dark Sky Legion

by William Barton and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

Maaron Denthurion, a Televox with the mission to preserve the Human Metastable Order, journeys to Olam, where amid turmoil, enslavement, religious cults, and superstition he must determine the fate of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553296167
• ISBN13: 9780553296167
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Awesome.

Simply excellent. Barton ranks as my favorite all time sci-fi (and sci-fantasy) author.

Aptly-named dark vision of humanity's future

Excellent writing and characterization, but boy, is this book a downer. A terrifyingly plausible, wrenchingly sad view of humanity's future as the controller of a true galactic empire. I haven't read this one for a while (just dropped by to see what sort of reviews it had gotten, to find none yet), and I've read many books since, but "Dark Sky Legion" still gives me chills just to think about. Barton doesn't seem a very cheery fellow, judging from other stories (authored and coauthored) of his I've read. Too bad, because he is a very fine writer. "Dark Sky Legion" has lots of explicit sex, so give it a pass if that offends you. I can't give it less than four stars--it's a compelling piece of work--but this is one vision I hope never, ever comes to pass.