by Michael Flynn · Tor Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9780312855253
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«Firestar» is the science fiction novel by Michael Flynn, published by Tor Books in hardcover (573 pages, in English).
In an apathetic, ignorant, and unequal 21st-century United States, heiress Mariesa van Huyten uses her fortune to create the Mentor Academies to reform education and, in parallel, drives a private space program aimed at an orbital station. The novel recounts that initiative and the future it unleashes.
First volume of the Firestar series; first edition 1996.
For readers of hard science fiction, near-future fiction, and space adventures led by private enterprise.
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