Buck Rogers Hammer of Mars: The Martian Wars Trilogy - Book Two
Author: M S Murdock
 
Reeling from a series of embarrasing defeats at the hands of Buck Rogers and the NEO freedom fighters, RAM unleashes its formidable powers. Knowing that unaided he has not chance against the corporate empire, Buck sets off in search of allies from the inner planets.
Venus is a hostile, terraformed landscape. 'Normal' humans dot the major continents of Elysium and Aphrodite and sail the atmosphere in huge aerostates. The Lunar Colonies are isolationist, threatening mass destruction to anyone who endeavours to undermine their will. Mercury is controlled by a royal family of Sun Kings, that with deep ties to RAM, hoards the energy and metal of Mercury. And deep in the Asteroid Belt, space pirates and fierce survivalists lie in ambush.
Meanwhile, RAM armies drive NEO closer and closer to the black abyss of extinction.
 
PENGUIN 1990
ISBN: 9780140133165