Bio of a Space Tyrant · Book 3
Politician
- Published
- 1 January 1985
- Pages
- 398
- ISBN-13
- 9781497657960
- Type
- novel
About this book
Politician (1985, 398 pages) is the third entry in Hope Hubris's first-person memoir, tracking his turn toward electoral politics after stints as a mercenary and officer in a system riven by class and ethnic warfare between Jupiter's settled moons. It sits between Mercenary and Executive in the five-book core arc Piers Anthony wrote in the mid-1980s.
Its place in Bio of a Space Tyrant
Politician is book 3 in the Bio of a Space Tyrant series. It follows Mercenary. It is followed by Executive. See the full Bio of a Space Tyrant reading order.
Hope Hubris begins the series as a teenage refugee fleeing famine and violence on Callisto, one of many colonized moons of a settled solar system, and ends it as one of the most powerful and feared political and military figures in that same system. Each novel tracks a distinct stage of his rise: the desperate flight from Callisto, a career as a mercenary and later officer in a system riven by class and ethnic warfare between the settled moons of Jupiter, a turn toward electoral politics, and finally his…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781497657960