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- Series: Firestar, Book 2
- Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 12-01-12
- Language: English
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Regular price: $31.47
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Publisher's Summary
Michael Flynn opened his saga of near-future technology and space exploration with Firestar, in which he introduced a set of characters orbiting around one powerful and determined woman: Mariesa van Huyten, who is obsessed with the need to get humanity back into space and to save Earth from disaster. In Rogue Star, van Huyten’s struggles continue.
Three astronauts are headed out beyond Mars on the first human trip to the asteroid belt. In orbit around Earth, a construction crew is building the first permanent space station, owned by van Huyten’s consortium. Meanwhile, the president of the United States is trying to force her into making a secret deal to put weapons in orbit so he can intervene in the ongoing wars.
Van Huyten’s plan is in place - and some people will kill to stop it.
Michael Flynn lives in Easton, Pennsylvania. He is the winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Award and was a Hugo nominee for Eifelheim.
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- 02-27-15
Love this series.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-04-18
Great book
Good story line and great narrative development was good on each caricature. Storytelling by reader was great
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- David Dick
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- Mark
- White Lake, MI, United States
- 03-04-13
Hard to listen to and hard not to
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
No, the book is 45% interesting and 55% non intersting. Spends a lot of time say big goverment is bad (which it is) and that big business is good (which it is not).
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