Balance of Power is a novel by Brian Stableford published in 1979.
Balance of Power is a novel in which the ship Daedalus continues its planetfalls.
[1] Dave Pringle reviewed Balance of Power for Imagine magazine, and stated that "this is a fairly humdrum example of Stableford's work.
There is too much jungle-adventure and piracy-on-the-high-seas stuff in this book for it to succeed as SF.
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