Hardcover is firm and hinges are not cracked or damaged. Pages are tight and clean. Boards have light shelfwear and rubbing to edges. DJ protected with mylar and not clipped. Retired library edition with usual distinctions. Pocket removed. BCE/BOMC. 310 pages. HardCover Binding. Year: 1987. ISBN: 0. The year is 2165, and humanity's first fleet of colonizing starships is approaching the planet Arus, one hundred thirty-light years from Earth. During the fleet's years-long voyage across the stars, Earth has produced a technological breakthrough, the stargate, and with it, the first contact with alien life. It has also, unknown to the people of Earth, brought humanity its first intersteller war.
