Falkenberg's Legion: Prince of Mercenaries [Paperback]

Jerry Pournelle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1989

Forced out of the CoDominium Navy, John Christian Falkenberg turns mercenary to protect the scattered Earth colonies so that civilization may survive the inevitable collapse of the home planet.

Product Details

• Paperback: 338 pages
• Publisher: Baen (March 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671698117
• ISBN-13: 978-0671698119
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #507,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I write science fact and fiction. Themes range from trivial amusements to how to save the world. In 1980 I predicted that by the year 2000 anyone in Western Civilization would be able to get the answer to any question that can be answered; that happened a bit faster than I thought it would. My column in BYTE is the longest running column in the computer industry.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do NOT Buy This Book. Buy The Prince Instead., September 19, 2006

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Duane Thomas (Tacoma, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Falkenberg's Legion: Prince of Mercenaries (Paperback)

When I say not to buy this book, it's not because there's anything inherently wrong with it. Prince of Mercenaries is actually a great book. It's just that its content has been collected in a more complete edition. The first two books in Pournelle's novels of John Christian Falkenberg were The Mercenary, followed by West of Honor. Those two books were eventually stitched together into Falkenberg's Legion, which is now considered the first book in the series. There were three later books, Prince of Mercenaries, Go Tell the Spartans, and Prince of Spartans. The last two books were co-written with S.M. Stirling; all four were eventually collected as The Prince. Thus my advice, if you want to read Pournelle/Stirling's tales of John Christian Falkenberg - and you should, they're some of the best military SF ever written - pass on the individual books and buy The Prince instead, to have the complete series in one volume.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great read for a Saturday afternoon, March 18, 2000

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Robert R. Bates (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Falkenberg's Legion: Prince of Mercenaries (Paperback)

Excellent story with believable polital plotting in the background...also with excellent military strategies and quite realistic charactors for fiction....good starting read if you've never read anything by this writer before.

4.0 out of 5 stars Nostalgia, October 26, 2010

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Philipp M. Reichold "Mike Reichold" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Falkenberg's Legion: Prince of Mercenaries (Paperback)

These were the first military fiction I ever read, mublety mumble years ago. In many ways, they're the best. They lay the foundation for understanding much about Falkenberg and the later stories set on Sparta. Pournelle's portrayals are honest and believable, and the military and political insights make for good story telling.