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Welcome to Moonbase

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Ok, everyone knows that we did not step onto the moon in 1999 and say "We're here to stay." So, that makes this fiction, right? Not necessarily.

Ben Bova is the former president of the National Space Society. As such, he writes 'Welcome to Moonbase' with as much scientific accuracy as fantasy, and the combination is wonderful to behold. Who is to say that 100 years in the future someone might read this book and wonder why the names and dates were wrong, but so much more was accurate.

This book was one of my biggest motivations to get involved in the space exploration society, and I'm hoping that many other people find it in their library and get involved because they want to be the ones to say that their son or daughter just got a job with Moonbase Inc.

Make it so!!!

And do it well. His books, new and older ones like this set a stage for things that COULD happen in the lifetime of the youngest readers today. No warp drives, no magic hyperspace, though he has written that sort of thing in his empire books, it is just solid workday exploration of the Sol System.

Want capt janeway??? read fantasy, want solid straight on SCIENCE-Fiction? Read Bova, Benford, Bear [sometimes], and few others that know that ink on paper does not contravene the laws of physics.

A work of fiction written as a guide and manual for a workable base on the moon. The book is an easy read with many wonderful pictures, very similar to the Dinotopia series of books. It will make you want to go to the moon yourself.

As is usual with Ben Bova and his peers(Asimov, Heinlein, Card, Clarke, etc.), Ben Bova shows the best sign of a true SF author: He doesn't guess, he predicts. Everything he wrote can/could be described as possible from when he wrote Welcome To Moonbase to this current day.

Ben Bova has captured the America spirit and dream in his spectacular book, "Welcome to Moonbase". The details really brought this book alive. When I get a chance, I will read this book again.

I must say, I did not like this book. It was a little child like and quite boring. I would recomend it only to the true space fanatic.