The Descent of Anansi

New York, NY: Tor, 1982. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. It's the American Revolution all over again. But this time it's a rag-tag band of space colonists vs. The United States. And the fate of the world hangs by a thread - 200 miles above the earth. In the not-so-distant future, Falling Angel Industries is headquartered on a Lunar-orbiting space station, constructed from used STS External Tanks. FA has just produced 1,400 kilometers of the strongest cable ever produced-single-crystal iron suspended in an epoxy matrix, .8 millimeters thick. Two companies- Brazil Techimotores-Electronics and Oyama Construction have bidded for the cable, and Oyama has won. Transporting the cable from Falling Angel to LEO via the Space Shuttle Anansi/Ion Drive Tug Gabriel, the six-day voyage gives BTE enough time to join forces with a group of Iranian terrorists. Stealing and launching a Soviet Prometheus ground-to-orbit missile, they destroy the Gabriel and cripple the Anansi and cable re-entry pod, also killing an Anansi crewmember. With the Anansi stranded in orbit, with no way to re-enter and no way to get back to Falling Angel, BTE launches two Space Shuttles. Their mission: retrieve the cable, and finish the job that the missile didn't complete destroy the Anansi and her crew. 278 pages. Some rubbing on top & bottom & edges of spine and some places on outside edges. Spine is creased. 1" crease across each of the 4 outside corners of the covers. Rear cover has a 4" crease also..