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Orbiting space station- last humans,
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This review is from: Earthwreck! (A Fawcett Gold Medal Book) (Paperback)
Not a bad read! I enjoy noting differences in his perception of the future and what *is* vis-a-vis how soon we'd be in space, electric cars (on the base at least) and the continued existence of a divided Germany as well the relative 'switcheroo' in a half male/female Russian crew and all male save one, western crew.
The initial war to get us to the meat of the story is a pretty short- its not the focus- its just a plot device to get us to our dilemma of survival/mistrust/etc. We (the West) come out as the bad guys with only stubborn 'men in sensitive areas' (one gay btw, not that that matters, but was a nice touch- an East German who fled over the Wall to the West)let their prejudices and hatreds get the best of them and plot and act against the Soviets. The Soviets, esp. the Commanding Officer is really reasonable and any animosity in the lower ranks is limited to grumbling and generally not touched upon. But, being only 224 pgs., there really is no room but it would've added to the realism if you didn't read the whole book basically factoring them out as any possible complication. I little B romance and conflict is tossed in as the B story. I really did enjoy the book for the technical details- how to rebuild from almost scratch with everything on earth contaminated? Why recycle from human waste. Fruit seeds, corn kernals to at least get a foo supply. I mean 'food' supply. How both stations must work together for both to have resources to start again. How different choices in hardware are an unexpected boon (West built for tech, less durable/ East for durability/less tech). And the dilemma of where to go from there and still maintain a culture that was whole and avoid cultural decay and technological stagnation so their descendents could return to earth. I wonder what its sales rank was in the 70s? It seems to be begging for a sequel.
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