Star Voyager Academy — William R. Forstchen

FROM CIVIL SOCIETY TO CIVIL WAR

It's 150 years in the future, and times have changed. For one thing, the long-stalled space program finally went private and got off the ground. For another, the U.N., courtesy of American military muscle, managed to pacify all the feuding mini-states that sprang up following the demise of the evil Soviet Empire. So, Peace at Last, right? Wrong: In the future, as in the past, there will be war and rumors of war.

Right now, the big issue lies between the United Nations of Earth and her erstwhile colonies on Luna, Mars and in the Belt. No longer dependent on Earth supplies for survival, they want their freedom, and true to the age-long tradition of mother countries, the U.N. doesn't want to let them go. It hasn't come to war yet -- not yet -- but as with West Point before the Civil War, this split threatens to tear humanity's only unified military academy apart, as brother is set against brother, and lovers become foes, at STAR VOYAGER ACADEMY