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Privateers

Privateers

by Ben Bova

1985Space industrializationPrivateeringFictionSpace StationsSpace Mining
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About this book

This latest of Grand Tour chronicles tells a brilliant tale of revenge, love, and freedom while also laying out a vision for the human future in Space. Setting itself up for a final confrontation between Soviet official Vasily Malik and American/Venezuelan industrialist Dan Randolph, this book reasonably describes how Third World Nations might take the lead in both liberty and space exploration as America withdraws from a world teeming with dictatorships.

Themes & subjects

Space industrializationPrivateeringFictionSpace StationsSpace MiningFiction, science fiction, general
First published 1985

Setting

2060’s

About the author

Ben Bova
Ben Bova

8 November 1932 – 29 November 2020

Benjamin William Bova is an American science-fiction author and editor. Bova has drawn on his experiences to create fact and fiction writings rich with references to spaceflight, lasers, artificial hearts, nanotechnology, environmentalism, fencing and martial arts, photography and artists. As of 2010 Bova has written over 115 books - non-fiction as well as science fiction. In 2000, he attended the 58th World Science Fiction Convention (Chicon 2000) as the Author Guest of Honor. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bova

Author

Ben Bova

First published

1985

Pages

383

Read time

≈ 10h

Editions

9

Language

English

Publisher

Methuen Publishing Ltd

ISBN

9780413416001

Where to buy

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