Ben Bova’s extraordinary Moonbase Saga continues using a breathtaking near-future adventure rich in character and occurrence. Seven years after the indomitable Doug Stavenger offers realized his appreciated dream of creating a colony over the inhospitable lunar surface area, Moonbase is certainly a thriving community, a marvel of scientific achievement developed and backed by nanotechnology: virus-sized machines that may build, remedy, and kill. But nanotechnology continues to be declared illegal by the house planet’s leaders, and a robust despot is determined to lay claim to Stavenger’s relaxing city-or obliterate it, if required. The folks of Moonbase, a colony without arms or armed service, must now defend themselves from earthborn aggression using the only weapon at their removal: the amazing technology that sustains their endangered house.