Orbital Decay

✍ Scribed by Allen Steele

• Publisher: Roca Editorial/Open Road Español;Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-us
• Weight: 291 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1480439924

✦ Synopsis

Winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel: At work aboard a battered space station, a team of blue-collar laborers stumbles upon a surveillance plot of unprecedented scopePopeye Hooker knows that space isn't all it's cracked up to be. A former fisherman who takes a job building low orbital stations to escape a failed relationship, he finds that in space, construction work is still a grind. And when they aren't building the space stations that will usher humanity into the stars, Sam Sloane and the rest of the beamjacks get high, blast the Grateful Dead, and stare through telescopes at the world they left behind. But life in orbit is about to get much more interesting.Nestled among the life support equipment that keeps them alive and the entertainment systems that keep them happy, the beamjacks find something astonishing. Turns out, their home isn't just a space station--it's a giant antenna designed to spy on every inhabitant of Earth. It's the greatest privacy...