Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
 
Firestar (Firestar Saga)
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.

Firestar (Firestar Saga) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Michael Flynn (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

Available from these sellers.


9 used from £1.51
Other Editions: RRP: Our Price: Other Offers:
Hardcover 17 used & new from £1.53

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Fleet of Worlds

Fleet of Worlds

by Larry Niven
2.8 out of 5 stars (5)  £6.50
The Ghost Brigades

The Ghost Brigades

by John Scalzi
4.3 out of 5 stars (16)  £4.39
The Last Colony

The Last Colony

by John Scalzi
4.0 out of 5 stars (11)  £4.45
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 896 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books; Reprint edition (Mar 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0812530063
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812530063
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,036,604 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Review

"As Robert A. Heinlein did and all too few have done since, Michael Flynn writes about the near future as if he'd been there and was bringing back reports of what he'd seen. A splendid piece of work." --Harry Turtledove
"Michael Flynn has restored heroism and romance to near future exploration. Not to be missed." --Nancy Kress
""Firestar "is a broad, sweeping saga of the near future. Michael Flynn has a lot to say, and this is the book where he says it." --Roger MacBride Allen
"This is the best book ever written on the science, people, and politics need to move us into space--to stay." --Charles Sheffield


Product Description

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, one woman becomes determined to bring the United States and the rest of the world back on track in the technological future by using her strength, intelligence, and money. Reissue.

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
hard sf
science fiction
michael flynn

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags
 

Customer Reviews

6 Reviews
5 star:
 (4)
4 star:
 (1)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:
 (1)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.2 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Top notch near future novel that makes one wish it were true, 10 Nov 1998
By A Customer
FIRESTAR is a very near future novel about an extremely wealthy business woman who believes that we need to be in space. She launches a very complicated, expensive, and VERY BELIEVABLE plan to get us there.

There are good guys, bad guys, flawed heroes and heroines, action, "police action," intrigue, great science, and extremely believable characters and situations.

If you want a book that will make you think as well as challenge your assumptions in a lot of different areas you will love it. If however, you are a doctrinaire Liberal, Libertarian, or Conservative you will hate this book.

Flynn has a deep respect for Robert Heinlein. A number of writers over the years have been acclaimed as the next Heinlein only to falter. Flynn is the first I have seen that has a real chance of truly deserving that type of honorific. This novel fares very favorably with Heinlein at his best and is head and shoulders above 90% of what passes for SF.

Mike

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Distressingly dull How-to-save-the-world manifesto., 2 Jun 1999
By A Customer
Flynn's exposition of a Rand-esque privatization of the US education system and space program reads like a Libertarian Party position paper -- it is interesting only to other Libertarians. The characterizations would be laughable if they weren't so trite. Rich young idealistic heiress finds love and destiny with old, poor, burned-out teacher, incidentally solving the crisis in the American educational system and putting the American space program back on track. Feh. A disappointing rehash of themes Rand and Heinlein have already championed with far more style.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for anyone fed-up with the current system, 24 April 1999
By A Customer
This book has some excellent ideas for changing the way people are educated. It may be science fiction now but in five years it will be science. With the increase in competition in the education industry look to see some changes that closely resemble the ideas in this book. And once people are properly educated we will see a resurgence in the space programs. Pretty soon more and more people will see the need to get off this rock! And with the help of this book and some other ideas from pioneering authors such as Michael Flynn we will get off this rock.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping, great story line
I really liked this book, and found it difficult to put it down. The characters are good, the writing is good, the plot is good. Can't wait to read Rogue Star.
Published on 26 Mar 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars inspiring hard science in the near future
If only we had a Mariesa van Huyten to lead us back to space. The characters are complex. The politics nerve racking. The hard science exciting. Read more
Published on 7 Sep 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Great near future novel...only hope we can get there.
I just finished reading Ben Bova's "Moonrise" and both novels make a GREAT case for privatization of global space programs. Read more
Published on 3 Mar 1998

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject











i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback

Ad

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.