Space Opera. In this sequel to Book One, Alice Roanoke returns to her native Earth.She emerges in the year 2084 in Houston, Texas. This city has grown into an urbanmonster dominated by NASA and the military, to her a savage dystopia. The Big Seven are now equal Great Powers, with one issue: Only the USA and Europehave the legal right to have any kind of Space Program. Because of this law, aka Western domineering, total war is about to break out. Alice and a smallcrew can escape the looming atomic Hell by joining the First InterstellarMission, on their new Starship.