By Ben Bova
200 thousand toes up, issues pass horribly fallacious. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, falling to earth over a path thousands of miles lengthy. And it its wake is the start of an important venture within the background of space.
America wishes strength, and Dan Randolph is set to provide it to them. He goals of an array of geosynchronous powersats, satellites which assemble solar power and beam it to turbines in the world, releasing the US from its dependancy to fossil fuels and breaking the ability of the oil cartels perpetually. however the smash of the spaceplane has left his corporation, Astro production, at the fringe of financial disaster.
Worse, Dan discovers that the aircraft labored completely correct up till the instant that saboteurs knocked it out of the sky. And whoever introduced it down is prepared and ready to kill back to maintain Astro grounded.
Now Dan has to string a deadly maze. The obvious threats are undesirable sufficient: Rival corporations are looking to purchase him out and take regulate of his goals. His former lover desires to co-opt his unlimited-energy excellent as a crusade plank for the candidate she's grooming for the presidency. NASA and the FAA are looking to close down his maverick enterprise. And his collectors are respiring down his neck.
Making concerns much more harmful, a global association of terrorists sees the powersat as a probability to their very own oil-based strength. And they've discovered how you can use it as a weapon of their battle opposed to the West.
A sweeping mixture of area, homicide, romance, politics, secrets and techniques, and betrayal, Powersat will take you to the sting of area and the dawning of a brand new global.
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Wait a bit. A crumpled sheet of paper, on the floor between couch and coffee table. Yamamura stopped, hesitated, and picked it up. Even dead, his client had a claim on him. He smoothed it out with care. It had originally been folded to fit an envelope. A letter, in a woman's handwriting, dated yesterday. DEAD PHONE. 101 My dear Aaron–for you were very dear to me once, and in a way you still are. Not least, I suppose, because you have asked me to return to you, after all the heartbreak and bitterness.
He wouldn't be suspicious. As things turned out, though, he died and she left. " Moffat tugged his chin. "The autopsy will show how much he did or did not drink," he said. " "Probably. But it's no solid proof. He didn't have to be on a tear when he decided to end his life. The missing booze could've been spilled accidentally. But it would help plant the idea of suicide in people's minds. She's clever. Ruthless. " DEAD PHONE. " "Money. If Bayard testified against her in the divorce proceedings, she'd get nothing but the usual settlement.
Maybe he went out, I'll wait. He hung coat and hat on the rack and passed on in. The room beyond, illuminated by a ceiling light and a floor lamp, was large and low, well furnished but with the comfortable slight shab-biness of a long-established home. At the far end was a couch with a coffee table in front. Cardynge lay there. Yamamura plunged toward him. " he DEAD PHONE. 103 DEAD PHONE 103 shouted, and got no response. Cardynge was sprawled full length, neck resting across the arm of the couch.
