Description:"Featuring an intriguing premise and an engagingly ingenuous hero, this sf adventure/intrigue belongs in most collections." - Library JournalFor a thousand years the Great Awakening has spread the teachings of Islam to all of the far corners of the known universe. Without a Caliph at its head, the great Muslim empire had been a disparate conglomerate of power, for no one ruler had been able to bridge the great inter-planetary distances to make the requisite pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. Then the Emir of Mars announced his plans to undertake this most ambitious of journeys and win the prize of the Caliphate, and Mars is thrust into a frenzy of plots and intrigues. Young scientist Abdul Hamid-Jones is not interested enough in politics to see how any of this could affect him, but soon finds himself caught up in the web of court politics, with his life at stake because of what he knows!"This book is definitely a good read in the classic SF sense. May the beneficient Allah rain his blessings on Donald Moffitt, so that we see many more from this major and too-little-recognized talent!" - Eric S. RaymondWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Crescent in the Sky (The Mechanical Sky # 1). To get started finding Crescent in the Sky (The Mechanical Sky # 1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: "Featuring an intriguing premise and an engagingly ingenuous hero, this sf adventure/intrigue belongs in most collections." - Library JournalFor a thousand years the Great Awakening has spread the teachings of Islam to all of the far corners of the known universe. Without a Caliph at its head, the great Muslim empire had been a disparate conglomerate of power, for no one ruler had been able to bridge the great inter-planetary distances to make the requisite pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. Then the Emir of Mars announced his plans to undertake this most ambitious of journeys and win the prize of the Caliphate, and Mars is thrust into a frenzy of plots and intrigues. Young scientist Abdul Hamid-Jones is not interested enough in politics to see how any of this could affect him, but soon finds himself caught up in the web of court politics, with his life at stake because of what he knows!"This book is definitely a good read in the classic SF sense. May the beneficient Allah rain his blessings on Donald Moffitt, so that we see many more from this major and too-little-recognized talent!" - Eric S. RaymondWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Crescent in the Sky (The Mechanical Sky # 1). To get started finding Crescent in the Sky (The Mechanical Sky # 1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.