Dark Earth: The Torch (Dark Earth Series, 1) [Paperback]

Robert Weinberg (Author)

Book Description

Series: Dark Earth Series, 1 | Publication Date: October 2002

The first Dark Earth novel based on the bestselling CD-ROM game--one of the hottest on the market

Ten years after the Cataclysm destroys Earth as we know it...a small band of survivors find refuge from the devastation in a city of light known as a stallite.

Three hundred years later...their living descendants face a new threat--a creature of the dark who plans to destroy them. Tomorrow...one brave man named Halcon must accept his destiny as the Keeper of the Flame--a fate that links him to his ancestors' past...and the future of all humankind.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Boulevard (Mass Market) (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425168360
• ISBN-13: 978-0425168363
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,582,273 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born on August 29, 1946, making me one of the famous "baby boomer" generation. I attended Hillside High School in New Jersey, then got my B.S. degree in mathematics at Stevens Institute of Technology. I later obtained by M.S. in mathematics at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where I taught math for two years. I was working on my Ph.D. in Number Theory at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago when I met my (future) wife Phyllis in 1972. We were married in 1973 and I left college to start my own business. I ran three very successful corporations after leaving college and did some writing on the side. When I was 40, I decided I wanted to concentrate more on writing fiction, which I had done in college but had abandoned afterwards. So I started writing novels in 1986. My first book, THE DEVIL'S AUCTION, was published in 1998 and I've written another 15 novels since then. I'm probably best known as the author of a popular trilogy I wrote for White Wolf Games entitled THE MASQUERADE OF THE RED DEATH. These three novels have been published in a number of different languages (including French, German, Spanish and Hungarian) and I've gotten well over 1,000 fan letters about them since they first appeared.

I also have written 17 non-fiction books, many of them in the pop-science field with my friend, Lois H. Gresh. And, in my spare time, I've edited around 150 anthologies. I like to keep busy!