The Peacemaker

by Alfred Coppel

The Arrow lanced down out of the night like a spear of flame, vengeful and deadly. The legends of Jaq Merril are legion—but legends. Hark, ye, then to the true story of the pirate benefactor of Mankind!

Genres: Short Stories

17 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 30, 2010

About the author

Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel was an American author. He served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick" publishers. Though writing in a variety of genres, including action thrillers, he is known for his science fiction stories which comprise both short stories and novels.

Reviews

[Jane Roxanne Beamon · Rating 5 out of 5]

The true story of the System's great Peacemaker is nothing like the history books...

[Forked Radish · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing breaks up an argument quicker than a bear attack. Ergo, bears are great peacemakers. Blessed are the 🐻s.

[Ania · Rating 2 out of 5]

A buccaneering adventure in space, it examines how Legends are made and how they only represent a 2-dimensional hero, one who inspires us, but who's 3rd dimension, the dark side if you will, is kept hidden.

Written during the cold war it explores the idea of a long standing conspiracy theory of a well-known, and once secret, project called "Project blue beam". ((Google this for more info.)) Supposedly this project, in a nutshell, worked on the idea that to unite the future mankind only an invader from space could accomplish this by providing a common enemy. Although in this story there is no alien invader, there are certainly "social outsiders" who accomplish just that.