Spartan Planet
Book 5 of John Grimes: Survey Service
Language: English
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: May 31, 2007
Pages:
156
Book Details
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Description:
And they named the planet Sparta. Long ago the humans had settled this planet - too long ago for anyone to remember.
Slowly the civilization had developed, and now it was complete. A civilization of war and violence. A civilization of crude pleasures. A civilization in which human beings were produced by birth machines - and women were unknown.
It was a civilization whose terrible secret only the doctor-priests knew - a secret that a desperate man named Brasidus decided to penetrate, even at the risk of something worse than death....