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Tom Paine Maru

L. Neil Smith (1984)

SubgenreAlternate History
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
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SeriesGalactic Confederacy #1
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NO-WIN SITUATION For the promise of a commission, Corporal Whitey O'Thraight had become Ship's Armorer on the first interstellar flight launched by the planet Vespucci. But the _Asperance_'s maiden voyage was also its last. And just a few hours after the crash landing, the crew was overrun by armored savages. Only Whitey and a badly wounded lieutenant survived, and they were prisoners of the local Baron. But before the Baron's Chief Torturer could finish them off, Whitey and the lieutenant were freed by a group of oddly combative monks. Soon the two survivors had to choose between loyalty to their homeworld and to their new friends--and siding with their rescuers would mean the destruction of Vespucci as they knew it!