Empire
Unknown · 1951
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Description
Clifford D. Simak wrote Empire in 1951 as a novel of intrigue and action in a not-so-distant future. Spencer Chambers, head of Interplanetary Power, frowns at a spacegram about John Moore Mallory, who charged Chambers with waging economic war on the peoples of the Solar System. Mallory, right and therefore dangerous, must be silenced.
Chambers weighs prisons: a Jovian ship to Pluto's orbit, or a cell on Mercury, for a man who sought an inquiry into Jovian elections. Simak sets corporate power against a lone critic, in brisk pulp style. The novel offers a sharp early tale of space politics and monopoly.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1951 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 299 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |