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Plot summary. Balance of Power is a novel in which the ship Daedalus continues its planetfalls. Reception. Dave Pringle reviewed Balance of Power for Imagine magazine, and stated that "this is a fairly humdrum example of Stableford's work. There is too much jungle-adventure and piracy-on-the-high-seas stuff in this book for it to succeed as SF."
The Power of One is a novel by South African born, Australian author Bryce Courtenay, first published in 1989.Set in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s, it tells the story of an English boy, who through the course of the story, acquires the name of Peekay.
The first season of the American fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth, primarily material from the appendices of the novel The Lord of the Rings.
The Conscience of the Rich is the seventh published of C. P. Snow's series of novels Strangers and Brothers, but the third according to the internal chronology. [3] It details the lives of Charles, Katherine and their father, Leonard March, a wealthy Jewish family.
George Passant is a solicitor in a small English town, whose idealism and eccentricity lead him to accumulate a group of young followers in a mentor-like capacity. Narrated by Lewis Eliot, the novel has the more general background of Eliot's rising career and the changes in English society through the 20th century.
The book continues the story of Severian, a journeyman in the Seekers for Truth and Penitence (the guild of torturers), describing his travels north to the city of Thrax. An independent tale in the book, "The Tale of the Student and his Son", was later published separately in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1981. [1]
Prisoners of Power, also known as Inhabited Island (Russian: Обитаемый остров, romanized: Obitaemyy ostrov, pronounced [ɐbʲɪˈtaɪmɨj ˈostrəf]), is a science fiction novel written by Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
The book is the first novel in what was apparently intended to be a trilogy of the same name. The second novel in the series is Wintermind, published in 1982. A third book by the same two authors, A Cold Blue Light, in 1983, is sometimes listed as the third novel of the trilogy, but is unrelated. Unattributed comments indicate that the authors ...