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Orbital Decay
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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- Don
- 12-27-16
Hard to follow
Lots of extra material, missed some section here and there, story difficult to follow. Wish it was more succinct.
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- Lady Pamela
- 11-01-18
This Review Needs a Title...So, I....
The story of blue collar misfit workers in space building an electricity generating satellite while led by a whacko. There are several characters who are developed very well and the reader gets to know them. The plot is cold war-ish but somehow did not hold my interest and I almost put it down in the middle. Additionally, the book contained long winded technical discussions of stuff that isn't yet built and made a few technical errors. The theme--big government is watching--is either prescient or ripped from Orwell's 1984. Overall..OK for Steele's first effort but not up to the Coyote series quality.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-04-18
Obviously his first book
I wouldn’t recommend this as the first Steele book people read. It is interesting as a fan to see how he progressed, but otherwise it was pretty weak.