Beowulf's Children - Softcover

"The best in the field."--Tom Clancy"Don't miss this one."--"Starlog""The team of Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven is one the best in science fiction....In "The Legacy of Heorot" they are joined by Steven Barnes for a tale of space conquest that makes "Aliens" look like a Disney nature film...."--"The Washington Times" "The best in the field." --Tom Clancy "Don't miss this one." --Starlog "The team of Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven is one the best in science fiction....In The Legacy of Heorot they are joined by Steven Barnes for a tale of space conquest that makes Aliens look like a Disney nature film...." --The Washington Times The best in the field. "Tom Clancy" Don't miss this one. "Starlog" The team of Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven is one the best in science fiction....In "The Legacy of Heorot" they are joined by Steven Barnes for a tale of space conquest that makes "Aliens" look like a Disney nature film.... "The Washington Times"" "The best in the field."--Tom Clancy "Don't miss this one."--"Starlog" "The team of Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven is one the best in science fiction....In "The Legacy of Heorot" they are joined by Steven Barnes for a tale of space conquest that makes "Aliens" look like a Disney nature film...."--"The Washington Times" "The best in the field."--Tom Clancy "Don't miss this one."--"Starlog" "The team of Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven is one the best in science fiction....In "The Legacy of Heorot" they are joined by Steven Barnes for a tale of space conquest that makes "Aliens" look like a Disney nature film...."--"The Washington Times"

"Once upon a long, long time ago, our parents and grandparents left a place called Earth. They traveled across the stars in a ship called Geographic to find paradise." Camelot is an island paradise for some perhaps, but not for us. There dwell monsters. These huge hulking inhabitants, called Grendels, bring only death and destruction to humankind. That we survived those first battles at all is a miracle. That we came to prosper is, for those who endured those awful times, beyond comprehension. Amazingly enough, Camelot, for most, will come to be the paradise we dreamed of. But a new generation is growing up, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars. Setting out for the mainland, these rebellious men and women are bent on exploration, ready to fight any Grendels that get in their way, indifferent to their parents' past. On the mainland called Avalon, however, there are monsters that dwarf the ones their parents fought, and as the young people will learn, monsters also dwell in the human heart. For Avalon does not give up her secrets easily, and some of those mysteries are wicked as sin, blacker than the grave.