How could he save Earth, when Earth no longer cared? Distant archaic Earth has been occupied by aliens for several decades, while Earth's goverment in exile has resided in the advanced Centaurian system. Finally, this aging, tired group find they are about to receive help--financial aid and weaponry to recover their lost planet.
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Algis Budrys is Lithuanian for Gordon John Sentry, more or less. (He made a deal with his mother not to change his name.) He is the author of ten novels, three short story colletions, and five non-fiction works. he has taught at Columbia (Chicago), Harvard, Brigham Young University, CalTech, the Charles Dickens House in London, Pepperdine University, the Taos experimental Writers of the Future workshop, and the Library of Congress, to name a few, as well as several annual workshops in Moscow, Idaho. He is the editor and publisher of Tomorrow Speculative Fiction magazine.
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