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The Silent War: Book III of The Asteroid Wars (The Grand Tour; also Asteroid Wars)
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The Silent War: Book III of The Asteroid Wars (The Grand Tour; also Asteroid Wars)
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by Ben Bova
Sales Rank : 267986
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Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction February 1, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0812579909
ISBN-13: 978-0812579901
Product Dimensions:
7.9 x 4.2 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
With its macho posturing and stereotypical characters, including devious Japanese, Hugo-winner Bova's third book in his Asteroid Wars trilogy (after 2002's The Rock Rats and 2001's The Precipice) could just as well have been written in the 1950s as today. Megalomaniac entrepreneur Martin Humphries of Humphries Space Systems has much to be pleased about on both the business and personal level: he has survived his battle with Astro Corporation's Dan Randolph and the luscious Amanda has divorced asteroid prospector Lars Fuchs to marry him. Then the Yamagata Corporation, a new player in the economy of asteroid mining, plunges the two companies into a bloody space-war and consolidates their assets in the power vacuum while Fuchs seeks vengeance on Humphries. The framing story, about an alien artifact that is both salvation and punishment for Humphries, puts a thick icing of morality on top of a series of predictable cliffhanger episodes involving violence, suffering and death. Short chapters, expository lumps and multiple, rapidly shifting perspectives on the action make for a jerky read.
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From AudioFile
The best book in Bova's series, this deals with a variety of characters in the near future, when man has partially colonized the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter for the purpose of mining. Our hero is a former space pilot named Pancho Lane, now a corporate giant who dukes it out (so to speak) with the rich and ruthless tycoon, Martin Humphries, and, mostly unknowingly, a Japanese conglomerate led by the Yamagata family. There are various levels of character development here, as well as Bova's knowledgeable scientific speculations. The readers do uniformly well, though Producer Stefan Rudnicki, who modestly omits himself from the primary cast members, sometimes drops his low voice toward inaudibility. D.R.W. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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