Humanity Prime [Mass Market Paperback]

Bruce McAllister (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1971

When Man's emerging star-empire met that of the savage Cromanths, the alien hordes began a war of extinction against humankind. So overwhelming was their power that Earth's outposts and finally the Earth itself were utterly destroyed. But one starship managed to escape, carrying colonists toward some distant habitable planet .if such a place existed .and if the Cromanths didn't find them first.

The mission was successful and the colony established. Mankind began to adapt to its new world, developed new abilities, and forgot much of its past on Earth. But then a Cromanth ship landed on the new planet -- and the last remnants of humanity were in jeopardy once more. Could humankind somehow survive this savage new onslaught by the Cromanthian Empire?

A major SF novel by a modern master of the genre.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

McAllister has written a marvelous first novel that presents...a solitary race utterly lacking in a mechanical civilization, but enjoying a depth of communication unknown to us.   --Furures: The journal of forecasting and planning --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 285 pages
• Publisher: 285; 1st edition (1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441349005
• ISBN-13: 978-0441349005
• ASIN: B00005XHH9
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,227,429 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bruce McAllister is known primarily for his literary fiction and fantasy, science fiction and thriller fiction, which he's been publishing professionally since he was sixteen. He was born in 1946 in Baltimore, MD, to a peripatetic Navy family with an Annapolis-graduate father who served with NATO during the Cold War and an underdog-championing anthropologist/archeologist mother whose specialties were Early Man and Native American studies. As children, he and his brother Jack lived in Florida, Washington D.C., California and Italy. From l974 to l997 he taught at the University of Redlands in southern California, where he helped establish and direct writing programs. Since l998 he has worked as a writing coach and book and screenplay consultant. His short fiction has appeared in literary quarterlies, national magazines, original anthologies, "year's best" anthologies and college readers; won awards from Glimmer Train magazine and the National Endowment for the Arts; and been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula and New Letters awards. His non-fiction articles on sports, popular science and writing have appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers. He has three wonderful children--Annie, Ben and Elizabeth--and lives in Costa Mesa, California, with his wife, choreographer Amelie Hunter.