Fallen Angels
IT ALL HAPPENED SO FASTOne minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the atmosphere, the next they'd been shot down over the North Dakota Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States government.That government, dedicated to saving the environment from the...
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IT ALL HAPPENED SO FASTOne minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the atmosphere, the next they'd been shot down over the North Dakota Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States government.That government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who would have thought that the cost of ending pollution would include not only total government control of day-to-day life, but the onset of a new Ice AgeStranded in the anti-technological heartland of America, paralyzed by Earth's gravity, the "Angels" had no way back to the Space Habs, the last bastions of high technology and intellectual freedom on or over the Earth. But help was on its way, help from the most unlikely sources ....
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Format: ebook
Publisher: Baen
Pages no: 328
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...