Título: Rebel (2) (Ascent to Empire)
Autor: David Weber, Richard Fox
Sinopse: Book two in David Weber and Richard Fox’s Ascent to Empire series.
HE NEVER WANTED TO BE A REBEL
The Five Hundred, the elite families who rule the Terran Federation, control its political power and its wealth, and they’ve grown steadily wealthier and more powerful, thanks to the war against the Terran League. War may be hard on the people who get caught in its path, but it’s very good for business, in the short term, and the Five Hundred own the shipyards that build the Navy’s ships. They own virtually all the industry that produces the weapons and matériel the war consumes so voraciously . . . and they’ve made damn sure someone else does the dying.
True, there are a few flies in the Five Hundred’s ointment.
There’s the growing hatred and resentment of the Fringe Worlds, whose children do eighty percent of the dying in the Five Hundred’s war. But the Five Hundred have made sure the Fringe knows what will happen to any system that goes ”out of compliance.”
There are the lunatic conspiracy nuts who insist that the alien Rishathan Sphere is secretly aiding the League’s military, but the Five Hundred have forced them to keep their mouths shut where it matters.
And then there’s Terrence Murphy, a man of honor who loves the Federation, who springs from the Five Hundred, yet knows it for what it is and is determined to speak for its victims. But the five hundred have dispatched ample force to deal with him and his handful of lunatic followers.
Unfortunately, the Fringe has paid enough of its children’s lives, and it no longer cares what may happen if it dares to defy the Five Hundred.
Worse, the lunatic conspiracy nuts were right, and the Rish have planned carefully for the Federation’s destruction.
And, worst of all, the Five Hundred have fatally underestimated Terrence Murphy.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Rebel (2) (Ascent to Empire)”, de David Weber, Richard Fox, publicado pela editora Baen, em 2024 e com 496 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Baen
Páginas: 496
Ano: 2024
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1982193603
ISBN13: 9781982193607
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Baen costumam transportar o leitor para universos onde o conflito militar e a aventura espacial são centrais, com narrativas que mesclam ação tensa e estratégias de guerra em cenários que vão de invasões alienígenas a batalhas interestelares. A experiência de leitura frequentemente envolve protagonistas enfrentando ameaças implacáveis, seja em combates corpo a corpo, seja em confrontos de frotas estelares, com ritmo acelerado e foco em decisões de sobrevivência e honra. O catálogo sugere ainda uma diversidade que contempla desde fantasia urbana com mistérios sobrenaturais até histórias de ficção científica histórica, com personagens que transitam entre mundos e tempos, oferecendo tanto tramas mais narrativas quanto outras com tom mais informativo ou político.
