Ben Bova - The Rock Rats - 00.nfo
General Information
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Title: The Rock Rats
Author: Ben Bova
Read By: Various
Copyright: 2002
Audiobook Copyright: 2005
Genre: Sci-Fi
Publisher: Audio Renaissance
Series Name: Asteroid Wars
Position in Series: 02
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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ISBN: 1-59397-492-2
Media: CD
Number: 9
Source: Rental
Condition: Good
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 84
Total Duration: 10:09:13
Total MP3 Size: 279.54
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: A_S
Ripped With: Audiograbber
Encoded With: LAME 3.96
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
Normalize: MP3Gain, Radio 88dB
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Book Two in the Asteroid Wars-continuing the saga of the struggle for
the wealth of the Solar SystemVisionary space industrialist Dan Randolph
of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her-for Randolph's
rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants
to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business.
Humphries wants revenge against Pancho-and, most of all, he wants his
old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs's wife. Before it ends,
many will die-and many will achieve more than they ever dreamed was
possible.
Noted space expert Bova returns to his planetary future history (Moonrise,
etc.) in a hard-charging continuation of the battle for the Asteroid
Belt begun in The Precipice (2001). Positing an Earth on the brink of
eco-catastrophe, a recently independent moon and a frontier filled with
prospectors and claim-jumpers out among the asteroids, it is a story
that at first appears to be very familiar. But mixed in with the high-tech
optimism and libertarian good faith are the darker elements of an older
dramatic tradition. Keeping his themes classical love, jealousy, greed
Bova gives his tale energy and focus through a love triangle that evolves
into a vendetta. Lars Fuchs finds that he and new wife Amanda can't
escape from the attentions of Martin Humphries, his rival for both Amanda
and the Belt's mineral wealth. Trying to establish a home on Ceres,
Lars and Amanda, with their fellow prospectors and miners, are threatened
by increasing attacks on their property and lives. Ultimately, Lars
must duel Dorik Harbin, the gunslinger sent to kill all who refuse to
sign contracts with Humphries Space Systems. As in Greek tragedy, from
which the author openly draws, there's no happy ending, only deception,
gory murder, exile and planned revenge. Archetypal rather than well-rounded,
characters suffer more from their own fatal flaws, hubris chief among
them, than from each other's actions. Ambitiously juggling elements
of space opera, western and Sophoclean drama, Bova keeps the pages turning.-
Script Readable
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[INTERFACE]
Genre=SF
Language=English
Title="The Rock Rats"
Author="Ben Bova"
Narrator="Various"
Duration=10h09
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