Moonwar H - Couverture rigide

Bova, Ben

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0380973030 ISBN 13 : 9780380973033

Editeur : Harper Voyager, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Bova Ben

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Moonbase rose up like the Phoenix out of the lunar dust-- a new society thriving on an inhospitable world battling the bitter enmity of powerful Earthside foes for the right to exist.

Now it's total war.

MOONWAR

This is our future.

Ben Bova sees it as dearly as if it were outside his window.

A Hugo Award-winning extrapolator--the best-selling explorer of Mars--Bova thrills us with the astounding possibilities of science and technology. But it's his humanism that sets Ben Bova's SF uniquely apart. His characters live and breathe, captivating us with their dreams, their foibles and their distinctly human crises. Armed with these potent weapons, he leads us into MOONWAR--the second book in his monumental Moonbase Saga for a life-or-death confrontation in the magnificent desolation of a harsh and airless world.

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.

Revue de presse :

The science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the world. (Ray Bradbury)

A masterful storyteller (Vector)

Fun, thought-provoking, pacy and stylish . . . Gives a good read while turning your eyes to what might be in the not so distant future, just like Clarke and Asimov used to do so well. (SFX on VENUS)

A splendid book . . . of his many books, Mars must be the most important. (Arthur C. Clarke)

Vivid, poetic and wonder-provoking. (Foundation on JUPITER)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Voyager
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0380973030
• ISBN 13: 9780380973033
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 388