Imperial Twilight, Eric Thomson
Imperial Twilight, Eric Thomson
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Imperial Twilight

Author: Eric Thomson

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 12 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/09/2021

Synopsis

The most powerful empire in human history is rushing headlong toward destruction, ending our species' supremacy in the known galaxy.

Two men with widely divergent visions are on a mission to save civilization in at least one sector, far from the imperial capital where a demented ruler holds sway. The first, Jonas Morane, wants to create an impregnable vault containing humanity's accumulated knowledge so those who survive the coming darkness can rebuild in decades instead of millennia. The other, Devy Custis, seeks to fend off collapse by founding a new empire in the Coalsack Sector, one free of the madness that caused this civil war. But will either resist the ravages of a genocidal empress, blood-maddened barbarians, and scheming admirals?

Unfortunately, the vicissitudes of fate, abetted by greed and lust for power, could destroy both before they make their dreams a reality.

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

In the previous book Captain Morane sets out to preserve humanities knowledge and to make Lyonesse a bastion against all comers while he builds the repository. I was very interested in finding out how he was going to do this. Unfortunately although he talks a good game he doesn't actually accomplish......more

Goodreads review by Shane

I was going more for three stars, but the end tied things up fairly well. This series is starting to move towards a smash-up of Foundation and Dune, or more specifically, Hari Seldon meets the Bene Gesserit. This isn't a bad thing, in fact I feel it was coming to this realization that moved me up a......more

Goodreads review by Beach

Painfully slow I struggled with book 1, but hoped that the good storyline would pick up in book 2, unfortunately not It is overly long, little seems to happen for chapters and then something minor occurs and repeat. It is also quite predictable. No real surprises and if you spend even a few minutes th......more

Goodreads review by Mark

I really enjoyed this book, it was better than the first. This is the first series I’ve read from the author and I will look at his other series. The confederacy really turns dark here with humanity destroying itself in a not unrealistic circumstance. People and Power and how it corrupts and what pe......more

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