Ben Bova
1) New Earth
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Award-winning author Ben Bova brings us New Earth, his latest tale of science fiction. The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth.All of the explorers understand that they are essentially on...
2) Mars
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-five astronauts travel to Mars. But even before the landers touch down, political and personal friction threatens to ground the mission.
3) Death wave
Author
Series
Star Quest novels (Ben Bova) volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"In Ben Bova's previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system. They discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien AI survived, and it revealed to Jordan Kell that an explosion in the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has created a wave of deadly radiation, expanding out from the core toward Earth. Unless the human race acts to save itself, all life on Earth will be wiped...
4) Earth
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 21
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A wave of lethal gamma radiation is expanding from the core of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light, killing everything in its path. The countdown to when the death wave will reach Earth and the rest of the solar system is at two thousand years. Humans were helped by the Predecessors, who provided shielding generators that can protect the solar system. In return, the Predecessors asked humankind's help to save other intelligent species that...
5) Powersat
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Author
Series
Star Quest novels (Ben Bova) volume 2
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it. A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy's core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth's vicinity at the speed of light. Every world it touched was...
7) Rescue mode
Author
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"The first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it. The ship is too far from Earth to simply turn around and return home. The eight-person crew must ride their crippled ship to Mars while they desperately struggle to survive. On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue....
8) Survival
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Alexander Ignatiev, former commander of the Sagon, who first discovered the Predecessors, is now in command of the Intrepid, one of dozens of ships sent out from Earth to try to save other civilizations. Their mission is to make contact with the intelligent machines that occupy a world only a few hundred light-years from the death wave's front. But their arrival is not welcomed.
9) Jupiter
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Astrophysics student Grant Archer is sent by a coalition of the "New Morality" of 21st century America to a research station in orbit around Jupiter to spy on the scientists who work there. Their work may lead to the discovery of higher life forms in the Jovian system--with implications the New Morality doesn't like at all. What lurks there is more than anyone has counted on--and stranger than anyone could imagine.
Author
Series
Billionaire's Club volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape. Art Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a driving vision: send humans to Mars. Thrasher has a plan. Form a 'club' of billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. A billionaire himself and the president of a successful company, it will take all his wiles and master manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks and...
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from the six-time winner of the Hugo Award Frontiers can be found in all directions. Frontiers of time and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outer limits of the human spirit. This outstanding collection of stories by one of science fiction's premier talents spans the length and breadth of history and the universe, while exploring thought-provoking new...
12) Power surge
Author
Series
Jake Ross novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jake Ross, the science advisor to a newly elected freshman senator, must figure out how Washington really works when his comprehensive energy plan runs afoul of special interests, cynical bureaucrats, and a powerful U.S. senator.
13) Power challenges
Author
Series
Jake Ross novels volume 4
Publisher
Caezil SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
It is time to start the colonizing the solar system. Ex-astronaut, current space advisor, and all-out trouble shooter for the President, Jake Ross, is determined to make it happen. And what better way to return to America's glory than by returning to the moon and setting up a permanent moon-base which can then serve as the launching pad for Mars and beyond. But as usual, political intrigue and conflicting priorities are threatening the whole program....
14) Power failure
Author
Series
Jake Ross novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he's learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal, riding in the wake of Frank Tomlinson. But now Tomlinson has decided to shoot for the moon. If they win, they get it all. If they lose, the game is over for Jake Ross."--
15) Uranus
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A religious idealist, a billionaire financier, and a prestigious scientist battle for control over a space mission to search for life on Uranus.
Humans can't live on the gas giants, making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has built Haven, a privately financed orbital habitat above Uranus. He invites "the tired, the sick, the poor" of Earth to his orbital retreat where men and women can find spiritual peace and refuge from...
16) Transhuman
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life, his ten-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When he learns that Angela has an inoperable brain tumor and is given less than six months to live, Abramson wants to try a new enzyme, Mortality Factor 4 (MORF4), that he believes will kill Angela's tumor. However, the hospital bureaucracy won't let him do it because MORF4 has not yet been approved by the FDA. Knowing...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When an ultra-rich space tourist visits the orbiting International Space Station, NASA expects a $100 million win-win: his visit will bring in much needed funding and publicity. But the tourist venture turns into a scheme of terror. Together with an extremist cosmonaut, the tourist slaughters all the astronauts on board the million-pound ISS--and prepares to crash it into New York City at 17,500 miles an hour, causing more devastation than a hundred...
18) Neptune
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the far reaches of the solar system, the outer planets-- billions of miles from Earth, unknown for millennia-- are being settled. Neptune, the ice giant, is swathed in clouds of hydrogen, helium, and methane and circled by rings of rock and dust. Three years ago Ilona Magyr's father, Miklos, disappeared while exploring the seas of Neptune. Everyone believes he is dead: crushed, frozen, or boiled alive in Neptune's turbulent seas. With legendary...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this new anthology, Ben Bova has compiled fourteen of his favorite short stories. Each story includes an all-new introduction with compelling insight into the narrative. Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction in “Scheherazade and the Storytellers,” as well as the morality of man in “The Angel’s Gift.”...
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of hard science fiction tales that examines both the benefits and detriments of science and technology on humanity, the future, and the cosmos, and includes tales from Gregory Benford, Robert Reed, Aliette de Bodard, and Jack McDevitt.
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