A Darkness upon the Ice — William R. Forstchen

THE END OF THE BEGINNING

His armies of Companions had taken Cornath's capital. His suicidal ramfleets had swept Cornath's fleet from the world-girdling Ice. But Michael Ormson--called by some the Ice Prophet--had not brought relief to the common people, and his officers were making powerful enemies.

Soon Ormson would be fighting for his life--and the outcome would decide whether Mankind would forever be prisoner to the Forces which had condemned Galileo millennia ago...