World War Three may already have started in outer space, while we all remain blissfully unaware of...
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did your phone just go dark too? On that cheerful note, let’s all meet Ivan Volkov. He’s a Soviet prairie boy: plays some hockey, likes to have a few beers with his buds, is a descendant of fighters in the Great Patriotic War, lives in a small town with a rusting abandoned steel mill. He’s also beyond brilliant in mathematics and astrophysics.
Those latter talents remain unrecognized when Moscow’s top university rejects Comrade Ivan because he can’t afford tuition — but China, with superior scouting, welcomes him with a full scholarship. Phantom Orbit There Volkov comes under the watchful eye of Cao Lin, a mysterious bureaucrat/academic/scientist/spy. He’s a pioneer in realizing that whichever nation can control outer space can rule the world — especially when one nation’s satellites can eliminate the others’ satellites.
In China Volkov also meets fellow foreign student Helen Ryan, an American with whom he falls in love, and who reckon.