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The Runaway Asteroid - Michael D. Cooper Book Review

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"The three main characters (all trained space explorers) were sent by Earth from their home on the Moon into the asteroid belt to hunt down a dangerous criminal. Instead of finding the criminal, the criminal catches them and held them prisoner on his asteroid, which had been converted into a starship by a now-vanished alien race. The criminal had made his asteroid undetectable via sight or radar and threatened Earth to either give him the reigns of power or he would launch asteroids miles wide at Earth. To prove his point he devastated portions of Mars with asteroids. The explorers had to escape from the criminal, and find their way out of the immense asteroid."
Jonathan Cooper, Resident Michael D. Cooper Scholar


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Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 30%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%




Tone of book - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Spying & Investigations Yes
What is main char. doing? - spying/espionage in enemy territorry
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
If enemy is a group... - pirate band

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - explorer
Age: - a teen
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - mastermind
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - healthy but a geeky weakling

Setting
Terrain - Planet surface, need spacesuit - Space, need spacesuit - Domed/Underground City - Asteroid
Which planet? - Mars - Asteroids - Earth's Moon
Spaceship setting: - really, really giant spaceship/station
Takes place in spaceship? Yes
Not Earth, in Solar System? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
scientific jargon? (SF only) - a moderate amount of scientific explanation
How much dialogue? - significantly more dialog than descript
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