Conquest Over Time: Restored Classics to Go Edition

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Pat Travis, a legendary Contact Man, races a battered ship toward Diomed III—also known as Mert—in a brutal corporate scramble to win first-contact rights before rival companies do. He expects a routine landing on an "Open Planet," but instead finds a world that looks like a Dickens novel in space and lives by a far stranger law: astrology governs government, marriage, work, justice, and even childbirth. When an eclipse marks his arrival as catastrophically unlucky, Travis is knocked unconscious and wakes in a sewer hideout among outcasts who have built a harsh society beneath the respectable world above. There he meets Navel, her brother Lappy, and the hulking Tude, and begins to unravel Mert's bizarre beliefs by using them against themselves. As satire sharpens into adventure, Travis discovers that Lappy is a genuine scientific talent, and that the planet's "fate" may be based on a fatal gap in its knowledge. By recognizing that Diomed III has overlooked a missing planet, he turns astronomy into leverage, outwits the locals, and secures a lucrative contract. But even as he wins the race, Travis realizes that on Mert, science, survival, and personal attraction may all prove more dangerous than first contact itself. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
Pat Travis, a legendary Contact Man, races a battered ship toward Diomed III—also known as Mert—in a brutal corporate scramble to win first-contact rights before rival companies do. He expects a routine landing on an "Open Planet," but instead finds a world that looks like a Dickens novel in spac...

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Michael Shaara was an American writer whose life and career were shaped by curiosity, discipline, and a deep interest in the human side of conflict. Born in New Jersey to an Italian American family, he worked a variety of jobs, studied literature, and eventually turned to writing full time, building a reputation for fiction that combined historical imagination with psychological insight. Though he published in several genres, he is best remembered for his powerful historical novels, which brought past events to life not as distant facts but as urgent moral dramas. His work often explored courage, doubt, duty, and the loneliness of leadership, showing how ordinary people are tested by extraordinary circumstances. Shaara's writing remains relevant because it asks questions that still matter: how individuals make choices under pressure, how history is shaped by personal conviction, and how war changes those who fight it. His prose is admired for its clarity, empathy, and dramatic force, and his influence has endured well beyond his lifetime, especially among readers drawn to thoughtful, character-driven historical fiction. Michael Shaara's legacy is that of a novelist who made the past feel immediate and human, and readers who enjoy history, military fiction, and stories about moral conflict will find his work especially rewarding.

Michael Shaara was an American writer whose life and career were shaped by curiosity, discipline, and a deep interest in the human side of conflict. Born in New Jersey to an Italian American family, he worked a variety of jobs, studied literature, and eventually turned to writing full time, build...

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