Title: Bova handles a classic science fiction topic well.
Product review: Moonwar postulates a colony on the moon dependent on nanotechnology for its survival. Under the influence of Luddites (people who are against potentially dangerous technologies) the U.N. has banned nanotechnology, including on the Moon. Rather than return to earth the moon's owner, a corporation represented by Doug Stavenger, decides to declare independence. A war ensues. But it isn't much of a classic war. Diplomacy is war by another means, and it is diplomacy and backstabbing that occupy center stage. Ben Bova did a great job showing his character's motivations. My major criticism is that the novel is, like so many published today, too long. You would cut it by a third and loose nothing worth reading. But publishers these days demand big, bulky novels. Some readers must like them.
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