Imperial Night, Eric Thomson
Imperial Night, Eric Thomson
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Imperial Night

Author: Eric Thomson

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 12 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/23/2021

Synopsis

Humanity's interstellar empire died in fire and blood, leaving wrecked star systems to face the long night of barbarism.

One tiny spark of civilization remains: The Republic of Lyonesse, tucked away at the end of a wormhole cul-de-sac. Yet that last bastion could suffer the same dire fate.

When the late empress unleashed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse on her crumbling realm, Lyonesse escaped War and Famine. However, the Pale Rider, carrying pestilence and death, still roams the wormhole network, seeking to finish off what the Imperial Retribution Fleet missed decades earlier, and he has finally found the entrance to the Lyonesse branch. What about the White Rider who brings deceit and the worship of false prophets? Perhaps he is already on Lyonesse, undermining what Jonas Morane so laboriously created.

Will the Navy's tiny, decrepit fleet stop plague ships from reaching Lyonesse while Morane and his ally Sister Gwenneth keep the fledgling republic from turning on itself?

Or will Lyonesse join the rest of humanity in a long imperial night, one which might never end?

About Eric Thomson

Eric Thomson is the pen name of a retired Canadian soldier with thirty-one years of service, both in the Regular Army and the Army Reserve. He spent his Regular Army career in the Infantry and his Reserve service in the Armoured Corps. He worked for a number of years as an Information Technology specialist before retiring to become a full-time author.

Eric has been a voracious reader of science-fiction, military fiction and history all his life. He assiduously devoured the recommended Army reading list in his younger days and still occasionally returns to the classics for inspiration. Several years ago, he put fingers to keyboard and started writing his own military sci-fi, with a definite space opera slant, using many of his own experiences as a soldier as an inspiration for his stories and characters.

When he's not writing fiction, Eric indulges in his other passions: photography, hiking and scuba diving, all of which he's shared with his wife, who likes to call herself his number one fan, for more than thirty years.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tony on December 12, 2020

This series hasn’t really developed the way I hoped. Not a lot has happened since the previous book, it appears to have been over twenty years, but they are still haven’t even produced any new ships. This book is basically about The Order of the Void’s internal politics and them messing with mind ma......more

Goodreads review by Raymond on June 16, 2020

Covering a new battle ground in the vein of Asimov's classic Foundation series! Thomson opens our eye to a new threat to the last struggling bastion of civilized humanity. An old threat from within vies with a new threat from without. President Moran and his friend Gwenneth of the Void Order fight a......more

Goodreads review by Shane on July 05, 2020

Three and a half stars. Not a bad book overall, it just seemed to spend a lot of time taking the series in a direction I did like. While the Sisters of the Void played a part in the earlier books, it was always a minor role. I don't see much point in adding a book that in the end doesn't change anyt......more

Goodreads review by James Baldini on April 06, 2025

Great installment of this series Not surprisingly, I enjoyed this story. Well put together, well written and enjoyable to say the least. A classic tale and I encourage all who read this to take the time to read this book and series!......more

Goodreads review by David on August 15, 2020

New Focus The first generation is passing from the scene and the ships of the original battle squadron are getting creaky. Our focus shifts from war to politics. Some snakes never die.......more

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