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Robotech Genesis (#1) (Robotech)

by Jack McKinney

Published 1987ISBN 978-0-3453-4133-4

From the back cover: ABANDONED ALIEN BATTLE FORTRESS! It saved humanity from itself, but there was a price: hot on its trail came the most merciless enemy of all! The Global Civil War was about to make Humankind extinct, when the stupendous Super Dimensional Fortress dispatched to Earth by a dying alien genius changed all that forever, and altered the history of the universe. Humanity's only hope lay in a corps of untried, resolute young men and women: the Robotech Defense Force. They were entrusted with powers they didn't fully understand. Then the most feared conquerors in the universe attacked, determined to destroy them for no reason they could comprehend. The war began as... A UNIVERSE HUNG IN THE BALANCE!

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Robotech Genesis (#1) (Robotech)Jack McKinney
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Reading lengthLength not listed
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1987
Primary categoryScience FictionAlso cataloged under Nonfiction and Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3453-4133-4
Language
English
Edition record
OL9743986M
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Begin with its place in Science Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Three questions to carry with you

  1. Which familiar part of life becomes easier to see through this imagined world?
  2. What rules shape the world, and who benefits from them?
  3. Where does wonder, fear, or possibility change a character’s choices?

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