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A Call to Arms. 1991 A Call to Arms
by Alan Dean Foster
First Edition 1991
Del Rey / Ballantine Books
New York
ISBN 0345358554
Hardback in dust jacket
Cover illustration by Barclay Shaw
342 pages
Price: $18.95

Notes
A The Damned novel.

First part of The Damned trilogy.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1992 Del Rey/Ballantine paperback edition, ISBN 0345375742. Cover illustration by Barclay Shaw.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
A CALL TO ARMS

For eons, the Amplitur had searched space for intelligent species, each of which was joyously welcomed to take part in the fulfillment of the Amplitur Purpose. Whether it wanted to or not. When the Amplitur and their allies stumbled upon the union of races called the Weave, the Purpose seemed poised for a great leap forward. But the Weave’s surprising unity also gave it the ability to fight the Amplitur and their cause. And fight it did-for thousands of years.

Will Dulac was a New Orleans composer who thought the tiny reef off Belize would be the perfect spot to drop anchor and finish his latest symphony in solitude. What he found instead was a group of alien visitors–a scouting party for the Weave, looking for allies among what they believed to be a uniquely warlike race: Humans.

Will tried to convince the aliens that Man was fundamentally peaceful, for he understood that Human involvement would destroy the race. But all too soon, it didn’t matter. The Amplitur had discovered Earth...

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