The Armies of Memory

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Macmillan, Apr 3, 2007 - Fiction - 432 pages
Giraut Leones, special agent for the human Thousand Cultures' shadowy Office of Special Plans, is turning fifty--and someone is trying to kill him.

Giraut's had a long career; the number of entities that might want him dead is effectively limitless. But recently Giraut was approached by the Lost Legion, an Occitan underground linked to an alliance of illegally human-settled worlds beyond the frontier. Also, it turns out that the Lost Legion colony has a "psypyx" --a consciousness-recording--of Shan, onetime boss of the Office of Special Plans. If they have that, they have literally thousands of devastating secrets.

Now, returning to his native Nou Occitan, Giraut will encounter violence and treachery from human and artificial consciousnesses alike. As bigotry and mob violence erupt throughout the rapidly destabilizing interstellar situation, Giraut will be called on the make the ultimate sacrifice, for the sake of civilization itself...
 

Contents

Part One The Diversification of Its Fancy
9
Part Two Scribblers and Madmen
177
Part Three The Little White Nerves Went Last
297
Part Four Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic
387
Acknowledgment and a Word about the Usual Autobiographical Note
427
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John Barnes is the award-winning author of many SF novels, including "Orbital Resonance, A Million Open Doors, and The Sky So Big and Black. "With Buzz Aldrin, he wrote "Encounter with Tiber "and "The Return. "He lives in Colorado.

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