A spaceship for the king / by Jerry Pournelle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pournelle, Jerry, 1933-2017.

Contributor:

Freas, Kelly, illustrator.

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, American.

Genre:

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

157 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Daw Books, 1973.

Summary:

"They had struggled upwards for a thousand years to reach the point Earth had reached in the early 20th century - and then the revived Galactic Empire took them over as a colony. There was one condition under which the planet's people could achieve freedom - they had to prove they could build themselves a spaceship on their own know-how. The plans for such a starship existed on an even more backward world - heavily guarded as taboo documents. So the puppet king called on his former foeman, Nathan MacKinnie, to go and bring back the "sacred" bluprints - without bringing a world-destroying Imperial fleet on his hands."--Page [4] cover.

Notes:

Novel.

"UQ1042"--Cover.

"DAW=sf books no. 42"--Cover.

Cover by Kelly Freas.

First printing, February 1973.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Other Format:

Online version: Pournelle, Jerry, 1933- Spaceship for the king.

OCLC:

905055