The Dance of Time

Battle Across Time!
Belasarius Apotheosis!

Steamboats that launch Greek fire; telegraph lines connecting the battlefront on the Indus to ancient Constantinople, Byzantine palace plots aided by wireless devices:  General Belasarius and his battle-hardened troops must advance quickly through the history of technology to stave off a coming age of ultimate darkness.  And now — the epic final battle that will either give birth to or destroy Aide, Belasarius's doughty crystalline advisor and humanity's loyal friend!

The latest entry in New York Times best-seller Eric Flint and military SF master David Drake's ground-breaking "Belasarius" series.

"High spirits and ingenuity. . . Drake and Flint. . . have devised an intriguing premise and developed it intelligently."

— Publishers Weekly on Eric Flint and David Drake's The Tide of Victory.

Cover Art by Alan Pollock
Maps by Randy Asplund

Hardcover

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, February 2006

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Flint, Eric.

The dance of time / Eric Flint, David Drake.
p. cm.
"A Baen Books original"—T.p. verso.
ISBN 1-4165-0931-3 (hc)
1. Belisarius, 505 (ca.)-565—Fiction. 2. Supercomputers—Fiction. I. Drake, David. II. Title.

PS3556.L548D36 2006
813'.6—dc22
2005034212

Production & book design by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH (www.windhaven.com)
Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-0931-8
ISBN-10: 1-4165-0931-3

Copyright© 2006 by Eric Flint & David Drake

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