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Prince Roger McClintock has to grow up fast when he and his bodyguards are stranded on Marduk. They have to cross a sea filled with monsters and across the water is an enemy spaceport, bristling with heavy artillery, while Roger's team has only hand weapons.
Author Notes
David Weber was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 24, 1952. He received an undergraduate degree from Warren Wilson College and attended graduate school at Appalachian State University. He ran Weber Associates, a small advertising and public relations agency, for several years.
He currently writes science fiction and fantasy full-time. His first novel, Insurrection, in collaboration with Steve White, was published in 1990. He has authored or co-authored over 40 books including The Honor of the Queen, In Enemy Hands, The Service of the Sword, Storm from the Shadows, the Honor Harrington series, the Safehold series, and the Star Kingdom series.
Weber's first book in the Manticore Ascendant Series, co-authored with Timothy Zahn, made the New York Times bestseller list in October 2014. At the Sign of Triumph, book 9 in the Safehold series, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2016. Book 10, Through Fiery Trials, was published in January 2019.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In their third outstanding military SF novel about a spoiled, foppish princeling's coming of age while marooned on the primitive planet of Marduk after a bungled assassination attempt, Weber and Flint (March Upcountry; March to the Sea) show Prince Roger developing into a thoughtful and highly competent (not to mention dangerous and charismatic) leader, who can inspire loyalty among both his Marine bodyguards and the Mardukan troops who have lent a hand or four. Parallels with Prince Hal in Henry IV are probably intentional, adding a certain gravitas to the many exceptionally well-done battle scenes, especially one that recalls the scale of Tolkien's Helm's Deep, which Roger wins by exercise of intelligence rather than strength. The prince and his followers discover that the original assassination attempt is part of a wider plot, as is a particularly loathsome example of cross-cultural contamination affecting the dominant Mardukan society. As Roger and company prepare to leave the planet, readers can look forward to seeing how the authors will retell Henry V. It should be one hell of a St. Crispin's Day. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
The dynamic duo of Weber and Ringo continue Prince Roger McClintock's adventures, which are coming to constitute a military sf classic. During an ocean crossing, McClintock and his diminished band of marines and Mardukans rescue the beautiful Princess Pedi--beautiful by Mardukan standards, that is, and enough so to mate with D'Nai Cord, Roger's shaman advisor. Upon arriving near the imperial base, the marchers find one local realm violently opposed to them and discover that it has been suborned by a faction in the empire that is slimier than any Mardukan faction and has overthrown Roger's mother and declared him an outlaw. Fortunately, Princess Pedi is the daughter of another local potentate, who helps Roger beat the tar out of his rivals and take the spaceport, after which the allies have to deal with a hit squad from the bad guys. Humans and Mardukans fight side by side, and soldiers' deaths are died. Pure entertainment for military sf buffs, who will easily turn all 500-plus pages of it. --Roland Green
