Battle Station (2011)
“If you have read Prometheans, a collection of fact and fiction published in 1986 by Tor Books, you have already met Sam Gunn. He’s the feisty little astronaut who … Well, if you’ve read the story, you already know, and if you haven’t, I shouldn’t spoil it for you.
“Isolation Area” deals with a later period of Sam’s life, when he takes that first scary step toward becoming the solar system’s premier big-time space entrepreneur. In a subtler way it is also the story of the friendship between two ...men, and of the new freedoms that we will find as we begin to live and work—and love—in space.
Incidentally, the best way to see that the military role in space is minimal is to maximize the peaceful, civilian, commercial aspects of space development. In his own cash-and-carry way, Sam Gunn strikes a blow against militarism with every sale he makes.
They faced each other suspiciously, floating weightlessly in emptiness.
The black man was tall, long-limbed, loose, gangling; on Earth he might have made a pro basketball player.MoreLess
“Isolation Area” deals with a later period of Sam’s life, when he takes that first scary step toward becoming the solar system’s premier big-time space entrepreneur. In a subtler way it is also the story of the friendship between two ...men, and of the new freedoms that we will find as we begin to live and work—and love—in space.
Incidentally, the best way to see that the military role in space is minimal is to maximize the peaceful, civilian, commercial aspects of space development. In his own cash-and-carry way, Sam Gunn strikes a blow against militarism with every sale he makes.
They faced each other suspiciously, floating weightlessly in emptiness.
The black man was tall, long-limbed, loose, gangling; on Earth he might have made a pro basketball player.MoreLess
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