# To Challenge Heaven - Hardcover

by **David Weber** (Author), **Chris Kennedy** (Author)

**In a universe teeming with predators, humanity needs friends. And fast.**

We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the _other_ sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet.

We took the technology they left behind, and rapidly built ourselves into a starfaring civilization. Because we haven't got a moment to lose. Because it's clear that there are even more powerful, more hostile aliens out there, and Earth needs allies.

But it also transpires that the Shongairi expedition that nearly destroyed our home planet ... _wasn't_ an official one. That, indeed, its commander may have been acting as an unwitting cats-paw for the Founders, the ancient alliance of very old, very evil aliens who run the Hegemony that dominates our galaxy, and who hold the Shongairi, as they hold most non-Founder species, in not-so-benign contempt.

Indeed, it may turn out to be possible to turn the Shongairi into _our_ allies against the Hegemony. There's just the small matter of the Shongairi honor code, which makes _bushido_ look like a child's game. We might be able to make them our friends -- _if_ we can crush their planetary defenses in the greatest battle we, or they, have ever seen...

### Author Biography

DAVID WEBER is the most popular living author of military science fiction. Aside from the Safehold series beginning with _Off Armageddon Reef_, he is also known for the _New York Times_ bestselling Honor Harrington series, which includes _Uncompromising Honor_. He lives in South Carolina.

CHRIS KENNEDY is a former school principal and naval aviator. His self- published novels include the Occupied Seattle military fiction duology, the Theogony and Codex Regius science fiction trilogies, and the War for Dominance fantasy trilogy.

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 9.4 x 6.4 IN

**Publication Date:** January 16, 2024

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