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Trojan Orbit

By: Mack Reynolds, Dean Ing
Narrated by: Jim Foster
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Island One, the U.S.'s first space colony and symbol of an American renaissance, is in trouble. Low morale, shoddy workmanship, unexplained malfunctions, and avoidable accidents have become a way of life, and nobody seems to know why. Is it the Russians? Home-grown anti-technologists? Arabs afraid of cheap solar power from space - or something even more sinister?

When the President ordered secret agent Peter Kapitz to find out what was going on, Peter's first discovery is that the Soviets are indeed involved. His second is that they are not alone. He will probably not live to make a third.

©1985 The Literary Estate of Mack Reynolds (P)2016 Wildside Press, LLC
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"A Product of its Time"

I couldn't keep listening - the narrator was fine, but it's steeped in boomer machismo and misogyny: the kind that a fan would defend by saying stuff like "What?! I love women!" then proceed to list reasons why like 'tits' and 'missionary position'.

It's neat to see a novel focusing on the attempt to build a rotating orbital habitat, and the possible hurdles involved, and I didn't dislike the way the story was going, but I'm way too queer to listen to men talk about women like objects and just let it slide. I got 4 hours in and couldn't do it any more.

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