"FORWARD" - читать интересную книгу автора (Jerome Bigge - Warlady 6 - In Harms Way)"IN HARM'S WAY" AN ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE OF MAN By Robert J. Simmons Forward When I married Carol back in 1976, (AND THAT WAS A LONG TIME AGO!) I hoped that we'd settle down to a comfortable settled mar- ried life that would go on for year after year. For the first fifteen years until the year 1991 that was the way that it was. Then suddenly we were "plucked" out of our own time, our own era, and "dropped" into a strange hostile world over five centuries in our future. A world where Man had fought a great WAR with alien beings from another world and lost back in the 21st Century. Where the mysterious and almost "supernatural" Priestesses of Lys now "controlled" the entire solar system from behind the scenes. Here we quickly found adventure (a lot more than we wanted) and a "cause" for which we soon found ourselves fighting for there in the service of Maris, the Queen of Dularn against a great Empire. The "world" of the 26th Century was a strange place, in many ways much like that of Rome at its glory. A social order where capital ships of the navies were still heavy triremes, where the most "advanced" missile weapons depended upon human muscle power. The sword was the preferred personal weapon of choice, and human slavery was commonplace everywhere. The common form of political organization was a constitutional monarchy with Queens now pre- ferred due perhaps to half mythical legends of a "woman" who had once ruled the entire world way back in the Twenty First Century. "In Harm's Way" is a term that was often used by sailors in the old "square rigger" navies before the development of steam. When you sailed up broadside to broadside with an enemy ship, you certainly were "in harm's way" for sure as you faced a row of black cannon muzzles and knew that death might be in the air now! On the other hand there are other ways of being "in harm's way" than in a ship to ship battle. Certainly facing a group of 26th Century "feminists" who hate everything "male" would "qualify"... Another is meeting up with the Lorr and the Women in an era when you least expected it. A time before the Priestesses of Lys were "founded" by Janet Rogers. A time when Man still felt himself to be the only form of intelligent life in the entire solar system. Before we learned the "TRUTH" there beneath the surface of Mars. "IN HARM'S WAY" AN ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE OF MAN By Robert J. Simmons Forward When I married Carol back in 1976, (AND THAT WAS A LONG TIME AGO!) I hoped that we'd settle down to a comfortable settled mar- ried life that would go on for year after year. For the first fifteen years until the year 1991 that was the way that it was. Then suddenly we were "plucked" out of our own time, our own era, and "dropped" into a strange hostile world over five centuries in our future. A world where Man had fought a great WAR with alien beings from another world and lost back in the 21st Century. Where the mysterious and almost "supernatural" Priestesses of Lys now "controlled" the entire solar system from behind the scenes. Here we quickly found adventure (a lot more than we wanted) and a "cause" for which we soon found ourselves fighting for there in the service of Maris, the Queen of Dularn against a great Empire. The "world" of the 26th Century was a strange place, in many ways much like that of Rome at its glory. A social order where capital ships of the navies were still heavy triremes, where the most "advanced" missile weapons depended upon human muscle power. The sword was the preferred personal weapon of choice, and human slavery was commonplace everywhere. The common form of political organization was a constitutional monarchy with Queens now pre- ferred due perhaps to half mythical legends of a "woman" who had once ruled the entire world way back in the Twenty First Century. "In Harm's Way" is a term that was often used by sailors in the old "square rigger" navies before the development of steam. When you sailed up broadside to broadside with an enemy ship, you certainly were "in harm's way" for sure as you faced a row of black cannon muzzles and knew that death might be in the air now! On the other hand there are other ways of being "in harm's way" than in a ship to ship battle. Certainly facing a group of 26th Century "feminists" who hate everything "male" would "qualify"... Another is meeting up with the Lorr and the Women in an era when you least expected it. A time before the Priestesses of Lys were "founded" by Janet Rogers. A time when Man still felt himself to be the only form of intelligent life in the entire solar system. Before we learned the "TRUTH" there beneath the surface of Mars. |
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