Fires Of Freedom

Introducing two complete novels in one volume by New York Timesbest-selling author Jerry Pournelle, telling of the eternal struggle forindependence on two colony worlds Mars in the not-so-distant future, anda distant world circling another star in the far future, both threatened bypowerful forces and faceless bureaucrats. In Birth of Fire: A teenage delinquent on a crowded, corrupt Earth,Garrett was given a choice: rot in prison on Earth, or be deported to Mars towork in the colony there. But on Mars he would find an inner strength that hehad never known before, and when Mars revolted against the multinationalcorporations that controlled the colonist's lives, Garrett was on the frontlines in the battle for planetary freedom. In King David's Spaceship: Set in the same universe as the NewYork Times bestseller, The Mote in God's Eye. A new Empire has arisenand is annexing Earth's surviving colony worlds. Haven had fallen back to anineteenth century level of technology, and the basic requirement for a colonyworld to be admitted to the Empire as a full-fledged member with the right ofself-government is that the colony have space travel. Unless Haven can somehowdevelop a spaceship, and quickly, the planet will be ruled by Imperial agentsand the inhabitants will be little more than medieval serfs.