The Blue Star

Fletcher Pratt

earliest edition we have, 1969 Ballantine Books, 1975 paperback

Ballantine Adult Fantasy

The alternate Earth of "The Blue Star" is no home to swashbucklers or soldiers. It's a carefully worked out society, approximating the 18th-century Austro-Hungarian Empire. In this world, gunpowder has not been discovered, but magic works. The Empire centered around the city of Netzigon is corrupt, collapsing, decadent, and basically tiresome. The novel follows the adventures of Rodvard Bergelin, who begins as an ine...

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The Blue Star paperback · 2008 · Wildside Press · 252 pages · 9781434474070
The Blue Star paperback · 1981 · Del Rey · 9780345298522
The Blue Star paperback · 1975 · Ballantine Books · 9780345245373
The Blue Star paperback · 1969 · Ballantine Books · 240 pages

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