The Exordium Series by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge Overview of the series The Universe of Exordium: Politics, government, and society Computer technology Space travel Weapons technology Spacecraft (especially warships) Naval tactics The Exordium mailing list Thoughts on how to do Exordium: The Board Game Unanswered questions Four last comments Notes: Dave Trowbridge has looked this page ...

It is certainly not then--not in dreams--but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.