title: Balance of Power (novel)
text: # Balance of Power (novel)
  
  Balance of Power is a novel by Brian Stableford published in 1979.
  
  ## Plot summary
  
  Balance of Power is a novel in which the ship Daedalus continues its planetfalls.
  
  ## Reception
  
  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."
  
  ## Reviews
  
  * Review by Keith L. Justice (1979) in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, May 1979
  * Review by Mary Gentle (1984) in Interzone, #8 Summer 1984
  * Review by Joseph Nicholas (1984) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 7, Number 6
  