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Could it be Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys?
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Nope! Good to see you, Leafy!
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El Viejo wrote:
Nope! Good to see you, Leafy!
Good to be seen! But it seems my Google foo has deserted me :wink:
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After much googling (I'll go blind): Steven M. Moore, Survivors of the Chaos?
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Nope!
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Clue the first: the alien artifacts are monumental, both in size and apparent purpose, and they range from square 'moons', to stone structures that resemble a city, built on a moon orbiting a planet that was once home to a now-extinct species.
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Probability Moon by Nancy Kress? I'm just guessing, lol never read the book just googled it!
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The Engines of God, by Jack McDevitt?
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Big D flicks the ball into the net! The Engines of God it is - over to you, sir!
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OK: title and author, please, of the sequence of five novels charting one man's obsessive quest for revenge against the criminals who, during his childhood, raided his homeworld and enslaved the population of his village.
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Sounds like Conan but that was seven books and more sword and sorcery than scifi.
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Sounds like Conan but that was seven books and more sword and sorcery than scifi.
I was going to say the same, but none of the (50, I thought) novels were published in his lifetime, nor by him.
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SandJ wrote:
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Sounds like Conan but that was seven books and more sword and sorcery than scifi.
I was going to say the same, but none of the (50, I thought) novels were published in his lifetime, nor by him.
I was thinking of the Gnome Press editions, 1950-1957. But your right with the 50 from the Tor editions, 1982-2004. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_(books))
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Not Conan, no – and this is definitely SF. There are a few swords and even possibly the occasional sandal, but there are also spaceships and exotic weapons. That's all down to the eclectic mix of cultures which form the backdrop to these stories: a comfortably corrupt mix of high- and low-tech, decadent sophistication and hairy-arsed barbarism. Not utterly unlike our own dear Co-operative!

Edit: although these are definitely SF and not Fantasy, I will admit that the name for the overall series does sound like it might be Fantasy!
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