About this title: An independently wealthy woman who has been spear-heading a effort to get mankind to more fully explore space may get the support that she needs when an asteroid on an impact course is discovered heading for Earth. The appearance of additional objects in space, though, may indicate that an alien intelligence wants humanity to stay on the planet and die. This the third book in a series.
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Description: New York: TOR 2000 First Edition 1st printing 365 pages, 6 3/8 x 9 1/2, hardcover in dust jacket, cover art by Julie Bell, CONDITION: VERY GOOD, moisture stain on top & top page margins (not affecting text) o/w fine condition in fine dj. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780812542967ISBN:0812542967
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. a lot of crimping to cover; RTB81. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 480 p. Firestar Saga (Paperback), 3. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780812542967ISBN:0812542967
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Tom Doherty & Associates
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780812542967ISBN:0812542967
Description: Grade: C. Catalog: Science Fiction General Synopsis: 460 pages. In the early years of the twenty-first century, humanity has progressed into space, having established a permanent presence with LEO (Low E... read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Publishing, New York, New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312861377ISBN:0312861370
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. Straight/tight. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Some small wear to corners of dustjacket but in really good condition. read more
Description: Very Good. TOR, PB, 2001, 1st PB printing. Clean, tight, mild wear, no markings. Check my store for more than 1000 other sci-fi and fantasy titles. read more
Description: Good. Former Library Hardcover, Stickers To Cover, Stamps On Inside Cover, Mylar Covered Dust Jacket, Clean Pages, Nice Used Copy. read more
Edition: Paperback First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tom Doherty & Assoc
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780812542967ISBN:0812542967
Description: Very Good. A small corner bump. otherwise looks new, read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: TOR Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780812542967ISBN:0812542967
Description: Very Good. 0812542967. Pb, light wear/soil, crease at spine; 12mo 7"-7½" tall. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312861377ISBN:0312861370
Description: Very good in fine dust jacket. 1st edition/1st printing, dust jacket and hardback both in great condition, just a small remainder mark to the bottom of the book. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 304 p. Firestar Saga (Hardcover), 3. Audience: General/trade. read more
"This is the third book in Flynn's near-future (and consequently dated, now) science fiction series about the development of private space exploration initiatives. This entry takes us through the years 2015-2017, when travel to and from low Earth orbit is commonplace and there are multiple space stations in orbit as well as facilities on the moon.
Mariesa Van Huyten's obsession over the possibility of a civilization-destroying meteor impact seems to be justified by the discovery of several near-Earth-orbit asteroids which have experienced artificial course changes - is someone or something aiming them at us?
We see the early development of the solar "sail" which is depicted as obsolete technology in Flynn's novel The Wreck of the River of Stars, set a century later in this same universe.
Flynn is an excellent writer and I like this series very much, although this particular book is fairly weak. I was bored to tears by Jimmy Poole's cyberspace maneuvers, but then I'm not a fan of the cyberpunk genre. The rest of the book seemed to be merely an echo of the earlier stories, without much new substance. Still, I will continue on to the next and last book."
"The near-future (2030s) science was all right, but the book kept trying to be a harlequin romance novel, all "warm, yielding flesh" and "urgent thrusts". This, combined with the fact that there were so many characters that most of them were caricatures, made things more than a little comical at times."
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