Ignorant Armies by David Pringle
Author:David Pringle [Pringle, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9781852833732
Goodreads: 976466
Publisher: Boxtree Ltd
Published: 1989-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
They were the great days of the Slann. The Warp Gate was an arch ten miles high, constructed of the finest obsidian. It loomed over the frozen pole of the world and turned with the planet.
It was the heart of a glittering city. There were stars inside the Gate. Slann traders passed through the Gate in their star boats to a million worlds; a hundred races mingled in the Gateway city.
One day fire billowed out of the Gate. Death and destruction rained over the Gateway city. Cubic miles of ice turned to slush.
Now a landing craft came lurching out of the Gate. Damaged in some unknowable accident, it trailed fire. It flew hundreds of miles before ploughing into the ground.
There were no survivors. The Slann cordoned off the area. The wrecked star boat sank hissing into melted ice.
Slowly the ice froze over. The city was rebuilt. Gradually, over centuries, the incident was forgotten...
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