technicat@bookwyrm.social reviewed Peacekeepers. by Ben Bova
I read enough to get a flavor, and the flavor is Caveman
I realize this guy is a sci-fi legend, and a I read a bunch of his stuff as a kid (I think The Dueling Machine doesn't get enough credit inspiring a bunch of movies I saw later), but as with beer, my taste for prose has refined over the years, and this book reads like early Bond, telling the spunky female jet pilot to get her little butt out of there, and I had to stop at "oriental inscrutability." I guess that counted for DEI at the time to just have a female and Asian character, and I actually flipped back to the copyright page expecting it to be sometime in the 50s but actually it was published in 1988. So the eighties weren't that great. I give the eighties two and a half stars.