Ben Bova
1) Survival
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The Star Quest series continues with Survival. A "human team sent to scout a few hundred light years in front of the death wave encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences. The sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons, and have survived earlier 'death waves,' gamma ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm...
2) Mars
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
502 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This grand epic adventure from six-time Hugo Award–winning author Ben Bova tells the irresistible story of man's first mission to that great unconquered frontier, Mars. Technically plausible and compellingly human, Bova's story explores the political, scientific, and social repercussions of our greatest quest yet: the search for evidence of life beyond Earth's boundaries. Half-Navajo geologist Jamie Waterman has been selected for the ground team...
3) Jupiter
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Grant Archer only wanted to study astrophysics. But the forces of the "New Morality," the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run 21st-century America, have other plans for him.
To his distress, Grant is torn from his young bride and sent 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...
4) Death wave
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 22 cm
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...
5) Moonrise
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the twenty-first century, the world is on the brink of a scientific renaissance, about to birth a future where space has become privatized and the moon transforms into a fertile commercial ground. As former astronaut Paul Stavenger works to turn a handful of abandoned government moon shelters into a full-fledged moonbase, powerful corporate lobbies align against him. Against the neo-Luddites is Masterson Aerospace, a company funding and creating...
Author
Series
Asteroid wars volume 3
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
8) Mars life
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program. Meanwhile, Carter Carleton, an anthropologist...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Intergalactic explorer, venture capitalist, and Casanova Sam Gunn may be gone, but his legacy lives on in his son, Sam Gunn Jr.In his first-ever adventure, Sam Gunn Jr. sets off to fulfill his father's left-behind mission of interplanetary enterprising. He soon learns his father's shoes are tough to fill, but he is up for the task. Junior takes a journey through the stars, falling in love with beautiful women and leaving his unique mark everywhere...
10) Apes and Angels
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 22 cm
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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...
12) New Earth
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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...
13) Moonwar
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A lunar colony faces off with corrupt Earth forces intent on destroying it, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Moonrise. This fast-paced, high-tech adventure is the continuation of the story of Douglas Stavenger, the Kennedy-esque scion of Moonbase's founding dynasty. While Moonbase has been flourishing under Stavenger's management, its existence, and even Stavenger's life, both depend on nanotechnology that has been outlawed on Earth...
14) Return to Mars
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Six years after the first manned Martian expedition, a second has been announced -- one motivated purely by its profitable potential -- and half-Navajo, half-Anglo geologist Jamie Waterman's conflicted soul is beckoning him back to the eerie, unforgiving planet. As commander of the new exploratory team, he will have to contend with a bitter and destructive rivalry, a disturbing new emotional attraction, and deadly, incomprehensible "accidents" that...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
480 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this provocative, gripping, and startling novel, bestselling author Ben Bova delivers a knockout read with his trademark blend of cutting-edge science and unrelenting suspense. Some see stem-cell research as mankind's greatest scientific breakthrough; others, a blasphemous attempt to play God. Suddenly, the possibility of immortality exists. Two brothers, both doctors, stand on opposite sides of the controversy. To Arthur Marshak, his work is...
Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
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...
17) Powersat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
America needs energy, and Dan Randolph is determined to give it to them. He dreams of an array of geosynchronous powersats, satellites which gather solar energy and beam it to generators on Earth, freeing America from its addiction to fossil fuels and breaking the power of the oil cartels forever. But the wreck of the experimental spaceplane on its reentry has left his company, Astro Manufacturing, on the edge of bankruptcy. The plane worked perfectly...
18) Earth
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm
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...
19) The return
Author
Series
Voyagers volume 4
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After more than a century of exploring the stars, Keith Stoner returns to Earth to find that the world he has come back to does not match the one he left. The planet is suffering the consequences of disastrous greenhouse flooding. Most nations have been taken over by ultraconservative religion-based governments, such as the New Morality in the United States. With population ballooning and resources running out, Earth is heading for nuclear war. Stoner,...
20) Voyagers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1981
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Stoner knew. The fiery object hurtling toward the Earth was an alien spacecraft. But the world might never know. For the discovery had shattered the world power balance, setting off a brutal struggle for supremacy that raged from the sacred halls of the Vatican to the corridors of the Kremlin and the Pentagon.