![]() ![]() ![]() Now, though, the Troft were trading partners-and they feared what might be a mutual danger: A new race, ruthless and tenacious, that threatened human space as well as Troft. He'd lost too many friends during the Troft war, though the Cobras triumphed in the end. If anyone had told Jonny Moreau the Cobras would one day take orders from the alien Troft, he would have laughed without humor. Jonny Moreau would learn the uses-and abuses-of his special abilities, and what it truly meant to be a Cobra. and not all the Cobras could be trusted to fight for Earth alone. Thus were created the Cobras, a guerilla force whose weapons were surgically implanted, invisible to the unsuspecting eye, yet undeniably deadly. It would attack the aliens not from space, but on the ground-with forces the Trofts did not even suspect. ![]() Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision. The colony worlds Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. ![]()
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In it, he sought to present a balanced portrait of the different aspects of love – all of them created by God – using various Greek words that either appear in the Bible or else embody a biblical facet of love.Īcross every era, love remains one of humanity’s chief preoccupations, enjoyed and celebrated but also abused and misunderstood. Lewis wrote one of his last books, The Four Loves. The two phrases are signposts along a cultural trajectory from idolizing romantic love to worshipping sexuality as the core of human identity, its every expression beyond critique.Ī few years before the Beatles recorded their classic song, C.S. 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