Empire Builders
by Ben Bova | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0812511654 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0812511654 Global Overview for this book
Registered by moonglow18 of Rainsville, Alabama USA on 5/24/2003
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
4 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 2 by moonglow18 at Another Bookcrosser By Mail in -- Mail, post, or by hand, Alabama USA on Tuesday, November 4, 2003
Released on Tuesday, November 04, 2003 at Another bookcrossing member in Rainsville, Alabama USA.
Releasing to Jamieh2003 from the book relay site. Enjoy!
Releasing to Jamieh2003 from the book relay site. Enjoy!
Received from moonglow18 thru bookrelay. Thanks! I'll be reading and releasing.
from Publisher's Weekly:
Ten years after breaking the Russian Federation's monopoly on space travel, 21st-century swashbuckler Dan Randolph returns in this third-rate sequel to Privateers . Now an industrialist, Randolph is suddenly arrested and his billion-dollar lunar mining corporation confiscated by the corrupt and bureaucratic Global Economic Council--which happens to be headed by his archnemesis, Vasily Malik. Randolph escapes, and learns that his misfortune is linked to an impending global environmental disaster which the G.E.C. is using as an excuse to seize control of the world's economy--starting with his company. He also learns that organized crime has infiltrated the G.E.C. and is looking forward to a handsome profit from the seizure. With enemies chasing him between Earth and the moon, Randolph works to stop these schemes and save the earth without compromising its people's freedom. In a hackneyed, predictable plot and bad B-movie dialogue, Bova combines familiar environmental doomsaying with dewy-eyed capitalist optimism. Presumably a lovable rake, the totally unsympathetic Randolph acts more like an insensitive lecher; although Bova makes many careful gestures toward gender egalitarianism in his casting, the major female characters are inevitably sexually harassed, manipulated and victimized. Bova can do better than this childishly macho, feeble and unoriginal attempt at space adventure
from Publisher's Weekly:
Ten years after breaking the Russian Federation's monopoly on space travel, 21st-century swashbuckler Dan Randolph returns in this third-rate sequel to Privateers . Now an industrialist, Randolph is suddenly arrested and his billion-dollar lunar mining corporation confiscated by the corrupt and bureaucratic Global Economic Council--which happens to be headed by his archnemesis, Vasily Malik. Randolph escapes, and learns that his misfortune is linked to an impending global environmental disaster which the G.E.C. is using as an excuse to seize control of the world's economy--starting with his company. He also learns that organized crime has infiltrated the G.E.C. and is looking forward to a handsome profit from the seizure. With enemies chasing him between Earth and the moon, Randolph works to stop these schemes and save the earth without compromising its people's freedom. In a hackneyed, predictable plot and bad B-movie dialogue, Bova combines familiar environmental doomsaying with dewy-eyed capitalist optimism. Presumably a lovable rake, the totally unsympathetic Randolph acts more like an insensitive lecher; although Bova makes many careful gestures toward gender egalitarianism in his casting, the major female characters are inevitably sexually harassed, manipulated and victimized. Bova can do better than this childishly macho, feeble and unoriginal attempt at space adventure
In an effort to be a better bcer I am putting a good many books that I feel I won't be able to get to for a long time as available for release or trade in order to whittle down my mountainous TBR. If this isn't traded then it may go to our local obcz in order to enrich another reader's life.
Journal Entry 5 by jamieh2003 at Queen City Creamery On Harrison Street in Cumberland, Maryland USA on Thursday, February 26, 2004
Release planned for Friday, February 27, 2004 at Queen City Creamery on Harrison Street in Cumberland, Maryland USA.
obcz release after 11 am
obcz release after 11 am
obcz release
Brought this home for my husband to read.
Journal Entry 8 by thescreaming at Kline's Restaurant In The Narrows in Cumberland, Maryland USA on Friday, April 23, 2004
Released on Friday, April 23, 2004 at Kline's Restaurant in the Narrows in Cumberland, Maryland USA.
On the gumball machines when you first walk in.
On the gumball machines when you first walk in.
