The Great Explosion
In less than a century, 50 percent of the human race fled the aged and autocratic Terra, settling wherever they could establish a world of their own choosing. The following centuries result in hundreds of independent new civilizations--too independent for an ambitious Terran government out to...
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In less than a century, 50 percent of the human race fled the aged and autocratic Terra, settling wherever they could establish a world of their own choosing. The following centuries result in hundreds of independent new civilizations--too independent for an ambitious Terran government out to conquer an empire.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780881849912 (088184991X)
Publish date: August 1st 1993
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publ. (NY)
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
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