Despite one or two isolated encounters in novels, mankind is the only sentient species, making the incessant warfare among humanity's feudal empires seem a more realistic and direct extension of the past and present.

There appeared again feudal empires, militant nations, economic class wars, and, not once but often, a world-state covering the whole northern hemisphere.

All those decades, he had managed spacecraft and weapons that could have reduced the feudal empire below to slag.

It is the fabled legacy of a Polynesian princess, a feudal empire so vast that it could never be assembled in the modern world.

She didn't have to come here, to this dismal feudal empire, and serve its puffed-up ruler.

Ahlissa is a feudal empire with hereditary rulership, and is currently ruled by His Transcendent Imperial Majesty, Overking Xavener I, Grand Prince of Kalstrand, Crowned Head of House Darmen.

In these movements, Eastern Europeans claimed a cultural and political independence from the feudal empires, such as Austria and Turkey.

After this, in four campaigns, the Emperor transformed his "Carolingian" feudal and federal empire into one modelled on the Roman Empire.

This technological reversal leads to the creation of the universal Orange Catholic Bible and the rise of a new feudal galactic empire which lasts for over 10,000 years before Herbert's series begins.

The Detroit of 1946, when Mr. Iacocca joined the Ford Motor Company as a trainee, was a feudal empire, full of warring kings and errant knights.