The Great Explosion
1962
First Published
3.89
Average Rating
187
Number of Pages
In less than a century, 50 percent of the human race fled the aged and autocratic Terra, settling wherever they could establish a world of their own choosing. The following centuries result in hundreds of independent new civilizations—too independent for an ambitious Terran government out to conquer an empire.
Avg Rating
3.89
Number of Ratings
399
5 STARS
32%
4 STARS
35%
3 STARS
26%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
Eric Frank Russell
Author · 18 books
Eric Frank Russell was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other pulp magazines. Russell also wrote horror fiction for Weird Tales, and non-fiction articles on Fortean topics. A few of his stories were published under pseudonyms, of which Duncan H. Munro was used most often.
