Book description
To get his woman a slice of bread, a man will kill. He does it out of
love. To feed and protect his children, a man will conquer the world A
man wants things safe. If he has to, he will pick up a weapon, and if he
can, he will march across the world with it. It's as simple as that. The
need for security and the impulses of love left trails of dead and dying
across the face of human history and always, somewhere, have made
someone happy and safe, and free to build a future. In this novel, Algis
Budrys shows us a hope some of us have not forgotten we have - one that
many of us may not be able to stomach. Algis Budrys (1931-2008) Born
in East Prussia in 1931, Budrys and his family were sent to the United
States when he was just five. After studying at the University of Miami
and Columbia University, Budrys turned his hand to both writing and
publishing science fiction. Over the years he worked as an editor,
manager and reviewer for various publishing houses, while maintaining an
impressive output of fiction and editing his own magazine, Tomorrow
Speculative Fiction. He was shortlisted for numerous awards, including
the Hugo and the Nebula, for his fiction and critical non-fiction. He
died in 2008.
