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by Richard Van White Jr (Author)
The Eleventh Commandment: "Prevail together or surely perish together." The mighty Ambros clan have reigned over the Imperium for many centuries, having first seized power following a series of brutal intergalactic wars known as "The Wasting" that ravaged the universe for hundreds of years, destroying entire star systems, sterilizing planets, and decimating populations with natural and engineered plagues. Only through absolute control and their strict adherence to The Eleventh Commandment have the Ambros been able to bring about centuries of interplanetary peace and economic prosperity. But at what cost? Rigid conformity and homogenization? Now, after many years of study at the Academy on Tempel where he's been carefully groomed as the next leader of the Imperium, Pfizer Ambros is returning to Earth to join his family in inaugurating the Omnividome, a multi-galactic instalink connecting every being in the Imperium. His mother, Emperor-Executrix Anastacia Ambros, intends the Omnividome to usher in a golden age of planetary autonomy and unprecedented intergalactic collaboration. But many fear that a new era of autonomy and self-determination will bring back contentiousness, greed, war and worse-a second Wasting. There are dark forces that want to see this happen, forces that seek to destroy the Ambros and everything they have built. Pfizer and his family are about to discover that even for the most powerful clan in the universe, a single day can change everything.
Author Biography
R. V. White has long been fascinated by space travel and the infinite mysteries of the universe. His love affair with science fiction began while watching Star Trek on a black and white television in 1969, the same year that man landed on the moon. He soon developed a voracious appetite for all things sci-fi-from classics by Robert A. Heinlein and Frank Herbert to Doctor Who, Space 1999, and the Star Wars Trilogy. This is R.V. White's first science fiction novel. He resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but also spends considerable time in Maryland with extended family.
