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Powersat,9780765348173

Powersat

by Bova
Edition:
Reprint
ISBN13:

9780765348173

ISBN10:
0765348179
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
10/31/2006
Publisher(s):
Tor Books
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Summary

America needs energy, and Dan Randolph is determined to provide it. He dreams of an array of geosynchronous powersats, satellites which would gather solar energy and beam it to generators on Earth-a daring new program. But after his experimental low-orbit space plane to breaks up on re-entry, he's left on the edge of bankruptcy. Worse, Dan discovers that saboteurs are responsible for knocking the space plane out of the sky...and are willing and able to kill again to keep it grounded. Now, rivals want to buy Dan out and take control of his dreams. NASA and the FAA want to shut down his maverick firm. Creditors are breathing down his neck. And an international organization of terrorists sees the powersat as a threat to their own oil- based power and have figured out how to use it as their weapon against the West.

Author Biography

A past president of the National Space Society and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ben Bova is the author of many novels and works of nonfiction about science, technology, and the future.

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“Bova gets better and better, combining plausible science with increasingly complex fiction.”  —Los Angeles Daily News
 
“Bova proves himself equal to the task of showing how adversity can temper character in unforeseen ways.” —The New York Times on Venus
 
“Hard-charging… Bova keeps the pages turning.” –Publishers Weekly on The Rock Rats


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