Book description
Tells the story of a spaceship attacked by pirates.
Why read it?
1 author picked The Descent of Anansi as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A near-future space thriller, about a revolution by an orbital space colony against the governments of Earth that seek to keep it under their control, is a fast-moving blend of action, politics, and speculation. Read this and see the sort of vision of humanity’s future in space that captivated people’s imaginations at the dawn of the Space Shuttle era.
From Allen's list on lost classics of space science fiction.
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