{"id":4966,"date":"2009-11-20T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2010-01-04T07:07:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T13:07:37","slug":"book-report-millennium-by-ben-bova-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/book-report-millennium-by-ben-bova-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Millennium by Ben Bova (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t the book for the Kris Kristofferson film of the same name or for the Lance Henrikson television show of the same name.  Instead, it&#8217;s a book written in 1996 about the state of the world and a close call for a nuclear war between the United States and the USSR except for a lunar rebellion that takes control of the warring sides&#8217; incomplete ABM satellite networks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty good read, and a strange extrapolation about the turn of the century from 1976.  Space travel has really gone well, with waystation space platforms and lunar colonies in place for over a decade by the book&#8217;s setting.  However, no great push to correct software written about the time of the book.  Also, the Soviet Union remains a strong force in the world and the UN is a force for good.<\/p>\n<p>A good science fiction book if you can put yourself into the now alternate-universe where it takes place.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=B001DKIC24\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t the book for the Kris Kristofferson film of the same name or for the Lance Henrikson television show of the same name. Instead, it&#8217;s a book written in 1996 about the state of the world and a close call for a nuclear war between the United States and the USSR except for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5085,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/5085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}