The Domination The Domination
THE TERRIFYING, In Marching Through Georgia, Under the Yoke and The Stone Dogs, S.M. Stirling traced the rise of the Domination of the Draka and its long struggle with the United States and the American-led Alliance for Democracy. In this alternate history, the Americans who rejected the Revolution did not scatter to the four winds and Canada; a slight change in the course of events brought them to the new Crown Colony of Drakia instead . . . starting with the Cape of Good Hope and soon encompassing the whole of the rich subcontinent of Southern Africa. Soon burning resentment and limitless ambition spurred the expansion of the people who called themselves the Draka.
There they built the Domination, an empire of inconceivable wealth and savagery, founded on conquest and slavery. It grew until it spanned the African continent, and then in the Great War of the early twentieth century to include much of Asia as well. In the Eurasian War, Germany and the Soviet Union exhausted each other and the Draka stepped in, leaving the Domination triumphant from the English Channel to the China Sea. Only the United States and its allies stood between the Draka and their dream of an enslaved humanity.
By the 1990's, the Draka commanded the stuff of life itself, mastering biotechnology until they could create new species at will . . . and transform themselves into the Master Race of their savage dreams. The Alliance for Democracy traveled another path, into the mysteries of the physical universe and the technology based on such knowledge. The final confrontation would settle which was more powerful . . . or leave the earth a lifeless rock where nothing human remained but bones.
Now widely known as a preeminent writer of military SF and alternate history, S.M. Stirling immediately commanded attention and praise from critics with the publication of Marching Through Georgia, the first novel in his acclaimed Draka trilogy. Among his other work, his collaborative novel with Anne McCaffrey, The City Who Fought, was a national bestseller and number 1 genre bestseller. He has also collaborated with Jerry Pournelle on both the best-selling "Man-Kzin Wars" series and the "Falkenberg's Legion" series, as well as with David Drake on the top-selling military SF series, "The General." Further solo novels by Stirling for Baen include The Ship Avenged, a sequel to The City Who Fought, and Drakon, an independent offshoot to the Draka series. He lives with his wife in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The parts that comprise The Domination have been published separately in somewhat different form as Marching Through Georgia, Under the Yoke, and The Stone Dogs.
Illustration by Steve Hickman
Cover design by Carol Russo