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Bezig met laden... Moonrise (1996)door Ben Bova
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |  When Ben Bova sat down to write Moonrise, the TV serial Dallas had been off the air for only 4 or five years. “Who shot JR?” was still a meme. So, it is reasonable to speculate that Bova might have thought, let’s take the family drama of Dallas and combine it with the corporate and political drama of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and The Man Who Sold the Moon. Update the science. And Bob’s your uncle. Certainly, Heinlein was on his mind. Jinny Anson is a character whose name is a mashup of Heinlein’s middle name and his wife’s first name. The plot involves a multigeneration family saga about control of an industry uniquely suited to develop Lunar resources and kickstart expansion into the solar system. The key technologies are nanotech and controlled fusion that does not need to make steam to produce electricity. Both technologies are taboo on Bova’s Earth, so the Moon is a sensible locale to develop them. The cultural attitudes seem more dated than the tech this quarter of a century later. Still worth a read. 4 stars. (  ) Tom-e | Jan 15, 2022 | Amusingly, despite the title/series, Moonrise is only tangentially about the Moonbase, despite a large chunk of the book taking place there. Really, it's about the bizarre broken family and corporate dynamic of Masterson Aerospace and the rise of nanotechnology in Ben Bova's universe. From what I remember of other books in the series (from more than a decade ago), the rise of technology and the idea of it being banned on Earth for religious reasons is a fairly major plot point from here on out, so it's interesting to see how that all began. That being said, wow I had some issues with the characters in Moonrise. I didn't expect someone I disagreed with and disliked more than Dan Randolph... but both Paul ( Despite my misgivings about Paul's character, I will say that one of the best scenes I've read yet in the Grand Tour is relatively early in the book, showing flashbacks of Paul trekking across the lunar surface, trying to get back to Moonbase before he runs out of oxygen. It's an intense scene that really underscores just how alien and desolate an environment that the Moon is and Overall, it's not my favorite of the series, but it's still probably worth reading, just for the bits of insight into the roots of the whole Grand Tour universe. (  ) jpv0 | Jul 21, 2021 |  ) utbw42 | Apr 16, 2018 | ) jcrben | Sep 14, 2013 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
There is a future of astonishing possibilities waiting on a lifeless world of surprising contrasts, where sub-frigid darkness abuts the blood-boiling light-a future threatened by greed and jealousy, insanity and murder. A twenty-first-century US aerospace company has developed the first permanent human settlement on the moon. The settlement is made possible by major scientific breakthroughs, particularly in the practical use of nanotechnology-microscopic machines that can build structures on the moon using raw lunar materials, as well as correct damage done to the human body by illness and injury. But conflict within the company's founding family and growing protests against the technology from radical environmentalists and religious fundamentalists on Earth put Moonbase in danger of closure. Former astronaut and brilliant visionary Paul Stavenger must prevent the project from falling into the wrong hands as a power struggle leads to murder and the near destruction of Moonbase. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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