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Winner of the Locus Award: Space-station workers discover a shocking global surveillance plot in this novel from “the master of science-fiction intrigue” (The Washington Post). Popeye Hooker knows that space isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. A former fisherman who takes a job building low orbital stations to escape a failed relationship, he finds that in space, construction work is still a grind. And when they aren’t building the space stations that will usher humanity into the stars, Sam Sloane and the rest of the beamjacks get high, blast the Grateful Dead, and stare through telescopes at the world they left behind. But life in orbit is about to get much more interesting. Nestled among the life support equipment that keeps them alive and the entertainment systems that keep them happy, the beamjacks find something astonishing. Turns out, their home isn’t just a space station—it’s a giant antenna designed to spy on every inhabitant of Earth. It’s the greatest privacy invasion ever perpetrated, and the beamjacks won’t stand for it. They may not be pioneers, but these roughnecks are about to become revolutionaries. Timely—and with Orwellian undertones, Allen Steele’s debut won the Locus Award for Best First Novel

The award-winning, bestselling author's first novel.

The beamjacks work in zero-gravity constructing satellites in the vacuum of deepest space. And they're not going to let the military control them anymore.

In a novel about hard work, hard play and mankind's future, Allen Steele bursts onto the science fiction scene, fulfilling the promise of his stories featured in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. "Reads like Golden Age Heinlein!"--Gregory Benford, author of Tides of Light. Reissue.

Olympus Station, affectionately known as Skycan, orbits the Earth and is home to 130 beamjacks. These are the people who are building the future, the space-stations that will open up the new territory. But frontier life can be dangerous and Skycan holds a secret that could threaten world stability The beamjacks are the men and women who are building the future - construction workers hired to assemble gigantic satellites in the vacuum of space. Management and the military think they have the beamjacks under control. They are wrong. The government and military think they have a handle on the "beamjacks" - special zero-gravity construction workers recruited to build giant orbital platforms--but the workers have an agenda of their own. Reissue.