The man who pulled down the sky - Hardcover

Barnes, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865531854 ISBN 13: 9780865531857

Publisher: Distributed by Contemporary Books, 1986

Synopsis

In order to prevent the takeover of the independent asteroids of the Solar System Confederation, Saul Pareto, an undercover agent, attempts to start a war between Earth and Orbital Republics

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Barnes's engaging debut is one of the first novels in the new Isaac Asimov Presents series published by Congdon & Weed with the cooperation of Davis Publications. The Orbital Republics may be the dominant power in the solar system but political and social forces are moving them toward a war on the Breakaway Confederation of moons and asteroids that barely maintains its independence. The Confederation sees its one slim chance against the OR's overwhelming military might in a diversionary tactic. It therefore sends several agents, including political historian Saul Pareto, down to the backwater colony that Earth has become. Among the harassed farmers of New York's Finger Lakes, Saul quickly foments a revolt but finds himself getting more involved with the people and their cause than he had anticipated. Patterned on the American Revolutioncomplete with Swamp Fox tacticsthis is a clever novel of ideas in action and their dire consequences.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Distributed by Contemporary Books
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0865531854
• ISBN 13: 9780865531857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256