First off, I liked this book. It wasn't great but I didn't want to put it down either. It was interesting reading about something that at the time it was written was set in the future, but reading it now is in our past (written in 199? but takes place in 2010). It's interesting to me to read about "where we might have been..." in regards to space exploration and what it would entail.The reason I'm writing this review though, and I hope I don't give anything away, but I just finished reading the book and I'm wondering who sent up the "Loc Mar" ship? Did I miss something? Flaco is greeted as a hero at the end of the book, but hero against who....?