[Starlink] the book, russian spring, by Norman Spinrad

[Dave Taht]

OT:

It is far from pure science fiction (it is rife with sex and politics)
but with a lead set of characters deeply involved in an alternate
future of space and world politics that never happened, but is still
eerily reminiscent of the world we live in today.

https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Spring-Norman-Spinrad/dp/1490449310

Len Kleinrock reminds me of Nathan Wolfowitz, a card shark that rises
to be president of the usa. In part also, it describes a future near
war over the ukraine. I am a lot like the lead character, and my
ex-gf, his wife. I have not read anything else by spinrad before, but
I think I will queue up more.

I just finished reading it, on a beach in Nicaragua, feeling the
relief I still always feel, knowing there are no nukes (probably)
pointed at me, for a change. You'll laugh, you'll cry, it was the best
book I have read in ages, capturing fully the ennui I felt about the
us space program in the late 80s up until a few years ago, and some of
my current fears for it moving forward.

He gets quite a lot of future technology wrong (no internet, people
still use telephones, spaceplanes dominate - the book was first
published in 1991), but it doesn´t matter.

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