Title: A superbly written alien history with a dynamite ending!
Product review: Even if you have read the previous versions of Barry Longyear's books Enemy Mine and the Tomorrow Testament, buy this book! Besides definitive editions of those two books, Longyear adds the concluding volume, The Last Enemy, plus a fascinating alien Bible called the Talman and some humorous essays(such as what happens when you discover you have to invent an alien language.) As a three volume history of war and peace these books are tremendous science fiction. The ending to the last book was an unparalleled piece of writing that I cannot forget. Longyear is sometimes humorous,sometimes serious,and he writes about his aliens anthropologically so that by the end you understand their culture as well as their philosophy. It is a complete story, and well worth reading.
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