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Название книги: Go Tell the Spartans
Автор(ы): Jerry Pournelle
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
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CONTENTSPROLOGUECHAPTER ONECHAPTER TWOCHAPTER THREECHAPTER FOURCHAPTER FIVECHAPTER SIXCHAPTER SEVENCHAPTER EIGHTCHAPTER NINECHAPTER TENCHAPTER ELEVENCHAPTER TWELVECHAPTER THIRTEENCHAPTER FOURTEENCHAPTER FIFTEEN
Go Tell the SpartansFOR THE THREE HUNDREDGo tell the Spartans, passerby,That here obedient to their laws we lie.
PROLOGUE
The history of the 21st century was dominated by two developments, one technical and one social.The technical development was, of course, the discovery of the Alderson Drive a decade after the century began. Faster-than-light travel released mankind from the prison of Earth, and the subsequent discovery of inhabitable planets made interstellar colonization well nigh inevitable; but the development of interstellar colonies threatened great social and political instability at a time when the international political system was peculiarly vulnerable. Whether through some hidden mechanism or a cruel coincidence, mankind's greatest technical achievements came at a tim