
For the first few years, Rick Galloway and his band ofmercenaries were doing well just to survive. They''d been swept off a hilltop inAfrica by a flying saucer and deposited on an alien world where the otherinhabitants were human-but from various and unfriendly periods of history, allcollected by flying saucer raids.
Rick has faced facts: this place is going to be home,permanently. To create a safe society for themselves and the families they aregradually building, they need to do more than just survive; they must convincethe others that a unified, peaceful society is better than a collection ofwarring tribes. Force would not be Rick''s chosen method of persuasion, but on aplanet where the other dominant culture is one brought straight from ancient Rome,force may be the only way.
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