A Darkness upon the Ice

The end of the beginning For two thousand years mankind had suffered a return to the Dark Ages. If Ormson was defeated it might never progress. His armies of Companions had taken Cornaths capital, and his suicidal ramfleets had swept Cornaths fleet from the world-girdling ice. But Michael Ormsoncalled the Ice Prophet by somehad not brought relief to the common people, and his officers were making powerful enemies. Soon Ormson would be fighting for his lifeand the outcome would decide whether mankind would forever be prisoner to the forces that had condemned Galileo millennia before.