"The Destroyers" by Randall Garrett is a science fiction story set on the farm planet Xedii, where an interplanetary war throws everything into chaos. We follow Anketam, a farmer suddenly in charge of keeping his community together as invaders try to take over. The story looks at tough topics like war, how society changes, and dealing with loss. Anketam has to grapple with tough choices about leading, staying loyal, and how the world around him is changing. Through his relationships with those around him, the book shows the emotional and ethical issues people deal with when war turns their lives upside down. Even as things get worse, Anketam's journey shows how the human spirit can endure even when faced with impossible difficulties, even when the way of life is gone.
The Destroyers
By Randall Garrett
On a peaceful farm planet, a farmer is thrust into leadership during a brutal invasion, testing his loyalty and forcing him to confront a new world of war and loss.
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About the AuthorGordon Randall Phillip David Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet.
Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet.
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