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Article: Doohan, James & Stirling, S.M. The independent command.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
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(The Flight Engineer, Vol. 3). Baen. 408p. c2000. 0-671-31851-9. $7.99. JSA
The human race is in dire peril, harried by renegade humans called Mollies who are intent on crippling Earth's colonization of other worlds. Their strategy is to deny access to a natural source of antihydrogen, a necessary fuel source for Earth's ships. To accomplish this, the suicidally murderous Mollies have teamed up with an extremely alien race of huge space-faring spiders, the Fibians. The combination of the Mollies' fanaticism and the Fibians' sophisticated technology is succeeding and a wise old admiral turns to a plucky unorthodox captain, Peter Raeder. Although a crusty general ...