Girish Mahajan (Editor)

Empire from the Ashes

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
9
/
10
1
Votes
Alchetron
9
1 Ratings
100
91
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Rate This

Rate This


Series
  
Dahak series

Media type
  
Print (hardcover)

Dewey Decimal
  
813/.54 21

Author
  
David Weber

Country
  
United States of America

4.4/5
Goodreads

Language
  
English

Publication date
  
March 2003

ISBN
  
0-7434-3593-1

Originally published
  
March 2003

Publisher
  
Baen Books

OCLC
  
51003775

Empire from the Ashes t1gstaticcomimagesqtbnANd9GcTW8osxnSWPbyhHYx

Genres
  
Novel, Military science fiction, Space opera, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
David Weber books, Fifth Imperium books, Military science fiction books

Empire from the Ashes is a science fiction novel written by David Weber.

Published in 2003 by Baen Books, it is an omnibus reissue of Weber's Dahak trilogy, including Mutineers' Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance and Heirs of Empire.

Plot

For Colin MacIntyre, it began with a routine training flight over the moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago, standing guard against an unknown enemy which once devastated the galaxy - and now has returned. So Dahak grabbed MacIntyre's ship and informed him that he was drafted to be its new captain and lead the fight against the ancient enemy. MacIntyre had doubts that he could handle the job, but Dahak had definitely picked the right man.

Before it was all over, MacIntyre would: Defeat a cadre of mutineers, formerly part of Dahak's crew, kept alive through untold generations by alien technology, who have been secretly manipulating life on earth for thousands of years... Mobilize the planet into a fighting force that might have a slender chance of stopping the ancient alien menace from eradicating all intelligent life in its path... And resurrect the ancient galactic empire, which had fallen into chaos and barbarism, with himself as Emperor — which meant that he immediately became the target of a plot to assassinate him, and strand his son and daughter on a planet where their chances of surviving in a superstitious pre-tech society would be zero for the average human...

Fortunately for the galaxy, Colin MacIntyre and his heirs have never even heard of average, and anyone, human or alien, who got in their way was going to be very, very sorry.

References

Empire from the Ashes Wikipedia