
The Powers of the Earth
Aristillus, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Sean Runnette
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By:
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T.J. Corcoran
Winner of the 2018 Promethus Award for Best Novel
Earth in 2064 is politically corrupt and in economic decline. The Long Depression has dragged on for 56 years, and the Bureau of Sustainable Research is hard at work making sure no new technologies disrupt the planned economy. Ten years ago, a band of malcontents, dreamers, and libertarian radicals bolted privately developed antigravity drives onto rusty seagoing cargo ships, loaded them to the gills with 20th-century tunnel-boring machines and earthmoving equipment, and set sail - for the moon.
There, they built their retreat. A lunar underground border town fit to rival Ayn Rand's "Galt's Gulch", with American capitalists, Mexican hydroponic farmers, and Vietnamese space-suit mechanics - this is the city of Aristillus.
There's a problem, though: The economic decline of Earth under a command-and-control economy is causing trouble for the political powers-that-be in Washington, DC, and elsewhere. To shore up their positions, they need to slap down the lunar expats and seize the gold they've been mining. The conflicts start small but rapidly escalate.
The Powers of the Earth includes zero-gravity gun fights in rusted oceangoing ships flying through space, containers full of bulldozers hurtling through the vacuum, nuclear explosions, armies of tele-operated combat UAVs, guerrilla fighting in urban environments, an astoundingly visual climax...and really, really big guns.
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Great story that's far to relevant.
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I wish I had discovered this sooner
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I would have given it four stars, but it felt like only half a story. It's fine to set the readers up for a sequel, but the book cut off in the middle of an action sequence with no sort of closure at all.
Engaging Read But Only Half a Story
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More believable
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The side characters (other Povs) don't seem that interesting, and only seem to exist to drive the plot forward. Let's have a perspective from these people so that we can have observers for this plot point.
Also the moon libertarians are very disorganized and supposedly kept a piece of technology out of the hands of government s for a fairly long time ... stretches believability. Besides that the tech was pretty cool, and the talking dogs was an interesting perspective as well.
So this book was difficult to get through and am not sure If I will continue the story as the main character is not very appealing to me mostly because the reasons for his main three plots arent really expounded on. For example MC hates government's great but the reason for that hate is lackluster.
Might be worth continuing
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A great read, in the spirit of Heinlein
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great but!
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It's an engaging story, well written, and fun. The first book (and maybe all of them) end with a cliff-hanger, so be prepared to be unsatisfied until you get the next book.
Spaceships, romance, stupid college kids, talking dogs - what more could a fan want?
If you like the SF genre, you will almost certainly like this series.
John Galt on the Moon
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Author clearly dislikes liberals. Lol
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