- Hardcover: 784 pages
- Publisher: Baen Books (7 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671577948
- ISBN-13: 978-0671577940
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.3 x 4.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Originally published as three separate volumes, S.M. Stirling's masterly alternate history tells of the rise to power of the Domination of the Draka and its long struggle with the American-led Alliance for Democracy. Beginning in the rich subcontinent of South Africa, the people calling themselves the Draka - disaffected refugees from the American Revolution - first forged an empire of inconceivable wealth and savagery, founded on conquest and slavery. Spanning the whole of the African continent, the Great War of the early twentieth century gave it much of Asia as well. Then in the Eurasian War, Germany and the Soviet Union exhausted one another and the Draka stepped in, leaving the Domination triumphant from the English Channel to the China Sea. Only America and its allies stands between the Draka and their dream of an enslaved planet. By the 1990s the Draka commanded the stuff of life itself, mastering biotechnology until they could create new species at will - and transform themselves into the Master Race of their savage dreams. Meanwhile the Alliance for Democracy travelled another path, into the mysteries of the physical universe and the knowledge to be gained there. The final confrontation would settle which was the more powerful ...or it would leave the earth a lifeless rock on which nothing human remained but bones.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book gave me bad dreams.
In Stirling's world, the American Loyalists and German mercenaries that had fought on the British side during the War of Independence were offered land in the newly aquired Cape Colony (i.e. South Africa), renamed the Dominion of Drakia (after Sir Francis Drake). Fuelled by right-wing Aryan immigrants, gold and diamonds, slavery and conquest, the Dominion (renaming itself the Domination of the Draka) has enslaved all Africa and the Middle East by 1919.
THE DOMINATION is a reprint of three books. MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA tells the story of a Draka regiment in Soviet Georgia in the Second World War. In UNDER THE YOKE conquered Europeans are used as slaves on a Draka estate. THE STONE DOGS is about the race between the Draka and the Alliance for Democracy to find a way of breaking the nuclear stalemate. As reprinted here the books are slightly condensed from the originals and are missing the appendices (which can, however, be found on the Web).
Stirling is a very accomplished writer and his world is entirely believable. He does not flinch from showing the awful consequences of the utterly ruthless and sadistic Draka waging total war and gaining total power. This is the best Alternate History I've read (and I am very much an AH fan) but you couldn't really call it enjoyable. It's a nasty reminder of how we shouldn't take our liberal society for granted.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This tome contains the first three volumes in Stirlings "Draka" mythos. Unfortunately it does not contain the dense and very useful appedicies that came with the three original novels. However saying that the book does not suffer too badly for their abscence. The piece focuses on an alternate history of the Draka people, the offspring of primarily American Loyalists and later Confederates who set about creating a cruel slave based empire (the "Domination" of the title) in southern Africa. The first book details their sneak attack on an overextended Nazi Germany. The second (and possibly best) focuses on the Draka occupation of Europe. Chilling in how this awful but practical people turn the rest of humanity into little more than cattle. The third, the subsequent inescapable build up to world war three between the Domination and the rest of the free world, resulting in the mass carnage of a nuclear slugging match.
A fine set of stories that switches with ease between individuals and massive global issues. With a collection of villians that make the Nazis look like half-assed petulant children. Truely scary stuff!!!
A fine set of stories that switches with ease between individuals and massive global issues. With a collection of villians that make the Nazis look like half-assed petulant children. Truely scary stuff!!!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I read this book and was drawn to it and horrified at the same time, Then I loaned it to a friend who read it twice back to back.
Just the very idea of it seems unreal but when you take a look back into the not so distant past you can see that the theme of this book is all to suddenly scarily real.
definatly recomended
Just the very idea of it seems unreal but when you take a look back into the not so distant past you can see that the theme of this book is all to suddenly scarily real.
definatly recomended
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Decent read, though occasionally...
I did enjoy the series, and the idea was certainly an interesting one.
The Draka themseves are usually presented well, and the author does a good job of making their... Read more
The Draka themseves are usually presented well, and the author does a good job of making their... Read more
Published on 5 Mar 2007 by P. Kirkbright
Disturbing Alternate History
I don't know how well the Drakaverse would have worked had things really gone this way in Real Life but Stirling's writings enfold you in this history of Democracies facing their... Read more
Published on 30 Mar 2003 by JA Fairhurst
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