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'In every revolution, there is one man with a vision.' Those prophetic words were spoken by Captain James T. Kirk to Commander Spock of the Terran Empire, hoping to inspire change -- but he could not have imagined the impact his words would have.
Armed with a weapon of terrifying…

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One of my favorite “But what happened after that?” moments of the original series was the challenge Kirk issued the goateed Spock at the end of "Mirror, Mirror": What will it be? Past or future? Tyranny or freedom? It's up to you. David Mack weaves a three-decade-long epic that answers the questions—with shades of the psychohistory of Asimov’s classic Foundation trilogy—as Spock plays a three-dimensional chess game of moves and countermoves to bring about the downfall of an empire.

The Sorrows of Empire has everything I want from a Mirror Universe story: revolutionary intrigue, imperial treachery, and a cast of…

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