Book description
Earthmen and Aleriona have met in space and neither side can afford to
let the other get too strong. The Aleriona have captured the human
outpost, New Europe, and claim that all the inhabitants were killed. The
World Federation on Earth seems committed to peace at any price, but
there are those, and ex-navy Captain Gunnar Heim is one of them, who
know that appeasement will only lead to further Alerion encroachment,
and he passionately believes that there must be a showdown now, before
it is too late. Heim and his crew of volunteers take off from Earth in
the Star Fox and start to fit out for their hit-and-run battle. Poul
Anderson (1926-2001) was born in Pennsylvania of Scandinavian stock. He
started publishing science fiction in 1947 and became one the great
figures in the genre, serving as President of the Science Fiction
Writers of America, winning multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, and was
named a SFWA Grand Master. He collaborated regularly with wife, Karen,
and their daughter is married to noted SF writer Greg Bear. Poul
Anderson died in July 2001.
