| Space Wars | 
 enlarge | Authors: Michael Coumatos, William Scott, William J. Birnes
Publisher: Tor Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 153974
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0765359006
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780765359001
ASIN: 0765359006
Publication Date: September 30, 2008
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 Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III August 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book came in expected condition. They shipped quickly and did a great job.
Not far from the truth.... June 13, 2008
While some readers may find this somewhat SciFi-politico, it is strickingly up-to-date and scary.
About half way through I found myself wondering where I was and slowly picked up that the games were still in play. It did leave me concerned enough to really start watching the global, political issues that seem even now to follow the book; weeks after finishing the book.
Military Space Technologies & Strategy June 12, 2008
This book although fiction, is based on hard facts with a view to the next big war in which the military's use of space and adversarial counter-space could very well be big issue. I especially like the "war gaming" aspects. The book takes the reader through decision making processes and war gaming of scenarios.
 What World War III? May 8, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
O'kay techno-thriller. To much politics and game theory for me. Realy slowed down to plot. Intersting insight into the space command and world of techno spies. But other then that there is no world war III as the title claims. It seems more like a day in the life of usual intrigue of us versus them. If you are interested in the workings of space command then buy this book, but if you are looking for a techno-thriller, move on!
Entertaining, plausible, but dated technology February 18, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book was very entertaining and offered a possible future scenario which was quite possible. The author attempted to mimic Tom Clancy's early style of writing but wasn't quite there. There was an over-abundance of adjectives at times but it wasn't too bad. The story flowed well and was believable but there were some added twists to the story that didn't make sense.
SPOILER (Don't read if you don't want to spoil the story)
1)If 4 GPS satellites were messing up the whole GPS network, just blow them out of the sky, very easy.
2)If another Shahab4 was getting ready to launch in 48 hours, why not just send another SpcOps team in to neutralize it. Shooting down French Galileo sats was not a good idea.
3)Two F-15's on the runway at Eglin with ASAT missiles going out to shoot down a French satellite and the French testpilot taxiing out at Eglin doesn't recognize the missiles and put two and two together after the Galileos are destroyed... :(
Other than those issues, I enjoyed the story, the book was quite an interesting look at 1980's technologies.
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