MILLENNIUM

December, 1999: on the Moon, the cheerfully coexisting American and Russian communities desperately watch their two energy-starved mother countries lurching toward nuclear war. In the closing weeks of the millennium, Colonel Chet Kinsman of Moonbase and Colonel Piotr Leonov of Lunagrad proclaim the independent nation of Selene—and seize control of the orbiting stations that control the U.S. and Soviet satellites. Will Earth come to its senses, or collapse in suicidal convulsions before the new millennium? Slick, snappy narrative, worthy convictions, all-too-plausible forecasts.