Moonwar
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| Book: | Moonwar |
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| Author: | Ben Bova |
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| Publisher: | Avon Books |
Now it’s total war.
Seven years after the remarkable Stavenger family made Moonbase a reality, a substantial community lives, labors and flourishes under the leadership of Doug Stavenger, thanks to the wonders of nanotechnology—virus-size machines that can build, refine, cure, create…and destroy. But the science that sustains and supports the young off Earth colony has been declared illegal and immoral by the home planet’s rulers. And one man with the power to dictate policy is launching war’s madness across the heavens—determined to lay claim to Stavenger’s peaceful city or obliterate it if necessary—forcing an isolated society with no arms or military to defend itself with nothing but ingenuity and the tools that built and maintain the settlement.
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Reviews
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Ben Bova can really turn out the space sagas. Moonwar, the sequel to Bova’s popular 1996 Moonrise, continues the story of Douglas Stavenger, the Kennedy-esque scion of Moonbase’s founding dynasty. Moonbase is flourishing under Stavenger’s management, but its existence—and Stavenger’s very life—depends on nanotechnology, outlawed on Earth in response to a wave of Luddite fear and violence. United Nations peacekeepers arrive on the moon to enforce the anti-nanotech laws, accompanied by intrepid network news reporter Edith Elgin, who promptly falls for Doug. In the meantime, Doug’s mother Joanna chooses to return to Earth, but once there she’s held hostage by the secretary-general of the UN, who wants Doug to surrender to his forces (and be killed). Smarmy politicians, beautiful TV babes, calculating corporate barons—it’s like Washington in the space age, with nonstop action and cool technology.
