The Trikon Deception - Softcover

Bova, Ben; Pogue, William R.

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ISBN 10: 0765355361 ISBN 13: 9780765355362

Publisher: Tor Books, 2006

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In the near future: Earth is an ecological nightmare, and humanity may well go the way of the dinosaurs. But overhead orbits salvation. A vast metallic island in space, Trikon conducts research too risky to be held on earth--research which could save the planet.

Yet Commander Dan Tighe discovers that the Trikon's major project is espionage. Its crew is split into warring factions; its scientists--consumed by greed, lust and drugs--run the lab for their own gain.

Only Commander Tighe can save the Trikon--and only Trikon can save the earth.

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About the Author:

Ben Bova is the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including Able One, Leviathans of Jupiter and the Grand Tour novels, including Titan, winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and in 2008 he won the Robert A. Heinlein Award "for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature." He is President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, and a former editor of Analog and former fiction editor of Omni. As an editor, he won science fiction’s Hugo Award six times. Dr. Bova’s writings have predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), electronic book publishing, and much more. He lives in Florida.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Veteran editor/writer Bova teams up with ex-astronaut Pogue for nonstop dirty doings aboard an orbiting space station while, below, the Earth of 1998 expires in a welter of pollution, drugs, and environmental collapse. Dan Tighe, commander of Trikon Station in space, has his work cut out controlling and soothing the on-board scientist factions, as European, Japanese, and American contingents research furiously into poor old Earth's problems while maintaining a fever pitch of mutual spying, deception, and data theft. Complicating this already involved picture are: the arrogant Kurt Jaeckle, leader of a separate project training astronauts for an eventual Mars trip; the mysterious scientist Hugh O'Donnell, who keeps his lab locked and his shady past concealed; and Chakra Ramsanjawi, drug-dealer and powerbroker. Eventually, drugs, rivalries, and sexual jealousies will destroy the researchers as a crewman develops religious mania, murders two people, and attempts to wreck Trikon Station. Lurid melodrama, glacially slow to develop but stuffed with authentic detail: a rather glutinously absorbing chunk of near- future hyper-reality. -- Copyright �1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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