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Orphanage
Author: Robert Buettner
Book Information
Publisher: Aspect
Book Type: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780446614290 - ISBN-10: 0446614297
Publication Date: 11/1/2004
Pages: 320

Book Description:
Mankind's first alien contact tears into Earth: projectiles launched from Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, vaporize whole cities. Under siege, humanity gambles on one desperate counterstrike. In a spacecraft scavenged from scraps and armed with Vietnam-era weapons, foot soldiers like eighteen-year-old Jason Wander-orphans that no one will miss-must dare man's first interplanetary voyage and invade Ganymede.

They have one chance to attack, one ship to attack with. Their failure is our extinction.
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Walt R. (BMeph) from NATIONAL CITY, CA wrote on 6/24/2006...

4 member(s) found this review helpful.

A good story, reminiscent - in a good way - of Heinlein's "Starship Troopers."

Jay M. (Jay) from BOSSIER CITY, LA wrote on 1/27/2006...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

This and the sequel kept me up late at night. A fun read, hard to put down.

Diane K. from SAINT CLAIR, MO wrote on 9/3/2005...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Mankind's first alien contact tears into Earth: projectiles launced from Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, have vaporized whole cities. Under siege, humanity gambles on one desperate counterstrike. In a spacecraft scavenged from scraps and armed with Vietnam-era weapons, foot soliders like 18 y/o Jason Wander-orpahns that no one will miss-must dare man's first interplanetary voyage and invade Ganymede.

They have one chance to attack, one ship to attack with. Their failure is our extinction.