Download This Fortress World AudioBook Free
SFWA Grand Get better at James Gunn's This Fortress World occurs in the much future of our galaxy, when many civilizations have risen and fallen, giving only their wonderful scientific accomplishments as legacy to those worlds that have now fallen into a fresh Dark Age. On the planet Brancusi, William Dane, an acolyte monk in the all-powerful Church, comes into possession of a crystal pebble slipped in the offering dish, a stolen treasure thought to hold untold secrets of mankind's past. You will find powerful men who will stop at little or nothing, including murder, to recuperate this historical artifact, and Dane must flee for his life to safeguard the data the crystal retains. Once in the outside world, to which he's a stranger, no longer in the comforting isolation of the Cathedral where he has put in his entire life, Dane faces not only internal problems to his deepest placed beliefs, but those external and involving the long-term future of mankind - only if he can survive. Deceived, imprisoned, tortured, and today a murderer himself, Dane should never only break down the walls that have kept him exclusively on the globe, but those imposed upon people via an oppressive centralized authorities, a government putting its own wishes above those of its people.
