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The Falling Torch is a 1959 science fiction novel by American writer Algis Budrys. A 1999 Baen Books edition was very slightly rewritten, and includes one entirely new chapter. The novel is about a group of human freedom fighters who attempt the nearly hopeless task of liberating planet Earth from the grip of a race of alien invaders.
Falling Torch is considered a classic SF novel, which is a bit ironic because the science fictional elements--a resistance movement that drives out an occupying force of alien Invaders from Earth--are almost irrelevant to the theme of the book: a meditation on the origins of the "great man" in human history. Nevertheless, it was an entertaining ...
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Mar 28, 2012 · Book Review: The Falling Torch, Algis Budrys (1959) (Bob Engle’s cover for the 1959 edition) 3.25/5 (Vaguely Good) A smile, or tears, perhaps. Tears are easier than laughter. Tears need no gust of breath, as laughter must though breath is short — tears do not crack the muscles of the back or make the jaws ache when the jaws are sore-gummed ...
Jan 1, 1972 · The Falling Torch [Algis Budrys, John Schoenherr] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Falling Torch
The Falling Torch (1959) Rogue Moon (1960) Some Will Not Die (1961) (an expanded and restored version of False Night) The Iron Thorn (1967) (as serialized in If; revised and published in book form as The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn). On a bleak forbidding planet, humans hunt Amsirs – flightless humanoid birds – and vice versa.
The falling torch by Budrys, Algis, 1931-2008. Publication date 1959 Topics Science fiction, American, Science fiction, American Publisher New York : Pyramid Collection
The spaceship dropped them into the night - two men pitted against the mighty empire that held Earth as a slave planet. One was the anonymous agent of the mysterious "munitions firm" supplying weapons to Earth's Underground.
