Fallen Angels
As a new Ice Age imperils the world, a lunatic fringe of the environmental movement has taken control of the U.S. government. Finding themselves abandoned by the new regime, the once-thriving space colonies must now replenish their air from scoopships that illegally dive into the atmosphere. But...
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As a new Ice Age imperils the world, a lunatic fringe of the environmental movement has taken control of the U.S. government. Finding themselves abandoned by the new regime, the once-thriving space colonies must now replenish their air from scoopships that illegally dive into the atmosphere. But when Alex and Gordon's ship is hit by a missile, they are sent tumbling to Earth--only to be hunted by authorities with ghastly plans for the two....
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780743471817 (0743471814)
Publish date: 2004-01-01
Publisher: Baen
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
This book was ok, but it didn’t really grab me and keep me interested throughout the entire book. The premise is that, instead of the global warming that most people predicted, Earth entered into an ice age. Everybody’s attempts to "go green" and limit pollution actually helped hasten that ice age...
Another of the Baen ebook giveaways; this is [a:Niven|12534|Larry Niven|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1182720933p2/12534.jpg]'s, [a:Pournelle|39099|Jerry Pournelle|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1216417671p2/39099.jpg]'s and [a:Flynn|126502|Michael Flynn|http://d202m5krf...
I was absolutely stunned. I love Niven and Pournelle, and when they get into a threesome it usually works too. I can't give this book an honest review because I gave up about 10 pages in. It was terrible!. First, this was written in 2002, still believing that we're going to be going into another...
Actually a pretty interesting blend of hard science, speculative science, and dystopia. You can't really complain when all the heroes are sci-fi fanatics, and they actually manage to save the day!I agree with others that the descriptions of the glaciers was really fascinating, and much of the other ...
A dated book, and definitely not Niven and Pournelle's best. Instead of global warming, the Earth is being covered by glaciers, thanks to those silly environmentalists and all their anti-pollution laws, which literally reversed the Greenhouse Effect. Two astronauts from the space habitats still orbi...
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