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PLOT SUMMARY The series tells the story of Prince Roger, the spoiled younger son of the Empress of the galaxy-spanning Empire of Man, third in line to the throne and generally regarded as an over-handsome useless fop. When he is sent to a backwater planet to show the flag at a native ceremony, he goes sulkily and reluctantly. But sabotage by a mind-controlled crewmember of the ship that he is traveling on sends his spaceship adrift to Marduk, a primitive world only nominally a part of the Empire of Man. There things rapidly get worse, for the spaceport has been betrayed to the sinister Saints, a star nation of religious zealots who make an obsession of ecological purity. The crew of the ship sacrifice themselves as a decoy so that Prince Roger and his Marine bodyguards can take their shuttles to the surface unobserved. Now Prince Roger and his bodyguard unit must fight their way across half a hostile planet, forging alliances with a succession of local polities from hunter-gatherers to early gunpowder civilizations. In the process Prince Roger learns a lot about himself and what it means to be a leader. The third book of the series ends with the spaceport recaptured and Prince Roger about to start on his way back to civilization with the survivors of his bodyguard, as well as a sizeable force of Mardukan allies. A complication is that he will not be welcomed home as he is believed dead, and leader of the coup attempt in which his brother and sister and their children had been killed, obviously so as to clear his path to the throne. The fourth book is set mainly on Earth, where the Empress of Man is being mind-controlled by a group of high-ranking traitors, including Roger's own father. Roger and his now-devoted (but few surviving) marine guards and allies must somehow assault the heavily-defended palace to rescue the Empress and wrench control of the throne from the usurpers without first being destroyed by the imperial armed forces. BOOKS IN THE SERIES #''March Upcountry'' ( 2001 ) (read online) #''March to the Sea'' ( 2001 ) (read online) #''March to the Stars'' ( 2003 ) (read online) #''We Few'' ( 2005 ) (read online) EXTERNAL LINKS |
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