Lunar Descent (Near-Space Series #3) [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Explosive science fiction-forged in Steele.

The moondogs are responsible for maintaining Skycorp's most important off-world projects-and now they're going on strike.
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Overview

Explosive science fiction-forged in Steele.

The moondogs are responsible for maintaining Skycorp's most important off-world projects-and now they're going on strike.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
Steele's (one title/pk Clarke County, Space ) new tale glimpses the doingspk on an industrialized moon, circa 2024. Descartes Station is a lunar factory responsible for producing oxygen and other elements for parent company Skycorp's more lucrative projects. Lester Riddell, former administrator of the base and a recovering alcoholic, has been recalled to boost the station's morale as well as its output. Unfortunately, the base's staffers--known as ``moondogs''--are a recalcitrant bunch. Steele fills his hard SF novel with a rogue's gallery of caricatures and stereotypes, including a humorless head of security, a scientist who worked as a high-fashion model and a crooked hacker with a heart of gold. Though most of the novel is devoted to mood pieces about life on the moon and frat-boy high jinks, Steele sketches a slim plot line concerning the attempts of Uchu-Hiko, an evil Japanese space corporation, to buy control of the station. Despite their differences, the moondogs rally together, organizing a strike and standing up to their management. The ending is as predictable as Steele's jokes and forced slapstick humor: a tired exercise in low lunar gravity. (Oct.)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781101174982
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 10/1/1991
  • Sold by: Penguin Group
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 555,481
  • Series: Near-Space Series , #3
  • File size: 546 KB

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 23, 2012

    This is one of Steele's better books, and ties into the events t

    This is one of Steele's better books, and ties into the events that take place in his first book, "Orbital Decay." As always, Steele's characters and dialog are strongly written and realistic. The book is filled with the kind of well-researched insider details that aerospace fans and NASA groupies will immediately recognize; these provide a level of realism that makes this story a lot of fun to read. Like "Orbital Decay", this book is plausible enough to be believable; the reader should not have to suspend belief or apply any handwavium to thoroughly enjoy any of the books in the Near Space series. In fact, the only regrettable thing about "Orbital Decay" is that it isn't part of a longer series.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 11, 2007

    Excessive Bad Language

    I would not recommend this book to anyone who doesn't like seeing the F-word used over and over and over and over. I almost quit reading it after the second chapter.

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