โ Bova, Ben
๐ Fiction
๐
2006
๐ Tom Doherty Associates
๐ English
โ 231 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
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โ Scribed by Ben Bova
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates
- Year
- 2011;2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 238 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 142991064X
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โฆ Synopsis
Two hundred thousand feet up, things go horribly wrong. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, falling to earth over a trail hundreds of miles long. And it its wake is the beginning of the most important mission in the history of space.
America needs energy, and Dan Randolph is determined to give it to them. He dreams of an array of geosynchronous powersats, satellites which gather solar energy and beam it to generators on Earth, freeing America from its addiction to fossil fuels and breaking the power of the oil cartels forever. But the wreck of the spaceplane has left his company, Astro Manufacturing, on the edge of bankruptcy.
Worse, Dan discovers that the plane worked perfectly right up until the moment that saboteurs knocked it out of the sky. And whoever brought it down is willing and able to kill again to keep Astro grounded.
Now Dan has to thread a dangerous maze. The visible threats are bad enough: Rival firms want to buy him...
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