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The Aftermath: Book Four of The Asteroid Wars (Asteroid)
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The Aftermath: Book Four of The Asteroid Wars (Asteroid)
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by Ben Bova
Sales Rank : 387437
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Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction April 1, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0765343169
ISBN-13: 978-0765343161
Product Dimensions:
6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Hugo-winner Bova's fourth Asteroid Wars novel (after 2004's The Silent War) is a bewildering attempt to exploit loose ends. When crazed assassin Dorik Harbin disables the spaceship Syracuse, an ore-carrier run by Victor Zacharias, Victor is forced to jettison an escape pod containing his wife and children. Unfortunately, the Zacharias family's desperate efforts to survive are lost among a host of other stories. While son Theo and daughter Angela battle incredible odds to make their way back to inhabited space, Victor steals another spaceship, Pleiades, and goes looking for his family and Syracuse. Various other characters, including Harbin, who becomes a repentant priest named Dorn, go on quests in other spaceships. Chapters are named for the spacecraft in which they take place, which helps orient readers, but Bova doesn't focus enough on the technical features of these ships or the natures of those in them to bring either to life. The action remains equally muddled. (Aug.)
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From AudioFile
Ben Bova continues his saga on the future of humanity in space. Multiple narrators, switching points of view, keep the tension high. The Zacharias family, who run a trading vessel as a family business, arrive at a habitat in the Asteroid Belt at the same time that it is being attacked. As this story of the Asteroid Wars consequences moves forward, the unlucky family is divided and goes in two different directions. The skilled multiple narrators enhance ones ability to follow the split story, making this another entertaining installment in Bovas science fiction series. S.D.D. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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