Sir Dominic Flandry is now an Admiral, but takes little joy in his new rank.He sees the rot in the Terran Empire on every hand and knows that the Long Nightwill inevitably fall upon the galaxy. His consolation is that measures he hastaken while doing what he can to postpone the Empire’s final collapse mayshorten the coming galactic dark age and hasten the rise of a new interstellarcivilization. In the meantime, he’ll enjoy the comforts of a decadentcivilization — and he’ll always be ready for one more battle againstthe Empire’s enemies.This concluding volume of the Technic Civilization saga includes twofull-length novels ("A Stone in Heaven" and "The Game of Empire"), plus threenovellas and a novelette set in the time of the Long Night and the renaissanceof civilization which followed it, concluding one of the grandest adventuresagas in science fiction.