Ancient, My Enemy (1974)

Others: Positive

STATED FIRST PRINTING. APRIL 1976 DAW MASS MARKET PAPERBACK, Gordon R. Dickson (The Forever Man). Here are stories of interstellar exploration, of adventure at the dawn of star flight and at the ultimate end of star flight, of man versus machine, of man versus nature, and of man versus the cosmos. - Goodreads

ISBN:: 9780722129692
Length:: 215 pages

Genres: science fiction

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