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Title: A nice colonization story
Review: "Moonrise" is my first Ben Bova book and I have to say I will be looking for more of his work. His descriptions of life building an outpost on the moon I believe are quite accurate to what the real explorers may one day encounter. Their attempts to live off the land by extracting materials from the regolith (lunar soil) is how I envision colonization will eventually be done. The only real plot point requiring any substantial "suspension of disbelief" is in the development of virus-sized nanomachines to build things atom by atom.
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