An old priest and his aging warrior guard approach an outpost of a great empire. The priest is bringing bad news to a friend of his youth, an imperial priest. The news is not welcome and the bearer is accordingly punished. The old warrior? A tribal hero is no match for the armoured champions of a city of iron and stone. Yet a destiny is created here.An old priest and his aging warrior guard approach an outpost of a great empire. The priest is bringing bad news to a friend of his youth, an imperial priest. the news is not welcome and the bearer is accordingly punished. The old warrior? A tribal hero is no match for the armoured champions of a city of iron and stone.Yet a destiny is created here.

DARK LIBERATION is a cycle of 16 novels written over a period of forty years, from 1970 to 2010, with the theme that the key to the future of mankind lies within each individual, and not in some external salvator, be it religious or technological. While there is no need to read all of the novels, some overview of the cycle itself should deepen the reader's understanding of the novels they do read.DARK LIBERATION is a cycle of 16 novels written over a period of forty years, from 1970 to 2010. The fundamental theme of the cycle – which only became clear as the novels were written – is that the key to the future of mankind lies within each individual, and not in some external salvator, be it religious or technological. While this broad thematic stream runs through the cycle, the individual novels themselves are intended to stand alone – there is no requirement to read the works in sequence or even to read any more than those novels that take a reader’s interest. Obviously, though, some understanding of the main themes, and of the arrangement of the cycle in a series of subcycles, will help most readers increase their appreciation of whichever novels they read. For this reason, it would be worthwhile reading this short Introduction to the Dark Liberation cycle and the novels that comprise it.