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Mining the Oort
Mining the Oort
Author: Frederik Pohl
Mars was harsh and unforgiving, but for the colonists who called it home, its future was as bright as the comets that hung in the night sky, for locked in those icy bodies were the water and gases that would make Mars live again, mined from the vast Oort Cloud beyond Pluto. Young Dekker DeWoe yearned to become an Oort miner. But when he finally ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780345371997
ISBN-10: 0345371992
Publication Date: 7/21/1992
Pages: 264
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Publisher: Del Rey
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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On the screen they saw the sequenced charges inside the comet mass doing their job. A lump flaked off one side of the comet and then another. Then the main mass split in tow, and the demolition charges inside each section blew up. The comet became a mass of rubble falling toward the Martian surface.......
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