934 e56057e7-ddf3-484e-b26b-6ee31dc01a4d Russian Spring Norman Spinrad calibre (2.43.0) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 1991-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 As the American dream of space explorations devolves into the nightmare of orbiting nuclear defense shields, aerospace engineer Jerry Reed casts his lot with the Europeans to preserve his own commitment to his country's abandoned ideals. Shifting international alliances, however, spell disaster for an increasingly isolationist United States, and the fortunes of Reed and his family (a Russian wife and two culture-torn children) fall prey to "politicians' politics." Bantam Spectra http://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?28669 eng Novel Space France Fiction Science Fiction Perestroika ESA America Russia _isfdb 14 of 1992 Locus Award for Best SF Novel