Empire from the Ashes

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Empire from the Ashes
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Author David Weber
Cover artist David Mattingly
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesDahak series
Genre space opera/military science fiction
Publisher Baen Books
Publication date
March 2003
Media typePrint (hardcover)
ISBN 0-7434-3593-1
OCLC 51003775
813/.54 21
LC Class PS3573.E217 E47 2003

Empire from the Ashes is an omnibus collection of science fiction novels by American writer David Weber.

Contents

Published in 2003 by Baen Books, it is an omnibus reissue of Weber's Dahak trilogy, including Mutineers' Moon , The Armageddon Inheritance and Heirs of Empire .

Plot

The trilogy's protagonist is Colin MacIntyre, who is on a routine training flight over the Moon when it reveals itself to be Dahak, a self-aware space battleship millennia old. MacIntyre and Dahak defeat Dahak's previous enemies and restore a galactic empire.

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