Millennium

by Ben Bova

Book Overview

The second book of "The Kinsman Saga", which also includes "Kinsman" and "Colony". The story of a man driven to create the future, and forced to save two worlds from the death throes of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345302486
• ISBN13: 9780345302489
• Release Date: February 1982
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

My favorite SF book

I read this book in hs 1979 or so.Was a big sf kid. This is one of my faves. Stuck with me all my life along with Mack Bolan. Had to read it again.

MOON POLITICS

I read this book many years ago and remember it as one of the best SF novels I ever read and I am actually disappointed that I can not find a copy even in the US! Anyway... I do not remember much of the plot: some kind of political fight between Earth and Moon colonies, the leader of the people of the Moon coming down to Earth trying to live in peace with the people of Earth and so on... It pre-dates a lot of similar plots: just think of all the Gundam series where the space colonies figth with the Earth alliances! And it adds that sort of "Rocky IV" feeling (do you remember Stallone winning in USSR and the sovietic politicians applauding? ), but this time the outsiders are the good ones. But "Millennium" is neither violent nor that retoric. More than this, it is well thought and realistic, at least about what concerns biological phenomena: e.g., when the Moon leader comes to Earth, it needs a complicated series of mechanical body-aids to stand Earth gravity.However well written, it suffers from the usual classical SF sindrome: we are living in the year 2000 and nothing of what is foretold in the book happened (but a lot of books of the time have the same problem, like Orwell's "1984" or the "Future History" series by Heilein).