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1) Farside
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 19
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When an Earth-sized planet circling a star thirty light-years away is detected, the race is on to build an astronomical observatory on Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth--a dangerous task plagued by accidents and breakdowns.
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 22 cm
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
477 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
To prove that the massive symbionts, named Leviathans, that inhabit Jupiter's atmosphere possess intelligence, physicist Grant Archer readies a deep-pressure manned probe for immersion in the giant planet's deadly cloud cover. Equally anxious to thwart his attempt, millionaire Katherine Westfall seeks to outmaneuver Archer in her bid for the top spot in the International Astronautical Authority (IAA) by any means possible--including murder.
4) New Earth
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 20
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm.
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
380 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Ben Bova's The Silent War is the breakneck continuation to The Asteroid Wars series that can end only in earth's salvation--or the annihilation of all that humankind has ever accomplished in space.
When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is led by indomitable Texan Pancho Lane, Humphries Space Systems by the rich and ruthless Martin Humphries, and their fight is over nothing less than resources...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
384 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her. For Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho and, most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs's wife.
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7) Transhuman
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm
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...
8) Earth
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 21
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm
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...
9) Titan
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 12
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
464 p. ; 22 cm.
10) Saturn
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 11
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
412 p. ; 22 cm.
12) Uranus
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
On a privately financed orbital habitat above the planet Uranus, political idealism conflicts with pragmatic, and illegal, methods of financing. Add a scientist who has funding to launch a probe deep into Uranus's ocean depths to search for signs of life, and you have a three-way struggle for control. Humans can't live on the gas giants, making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has built Haven, a sanctuary above the distant...
13) Death wave
Author
Series
Star Quest novel volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 22 cm
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...
14) Mars life
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 15
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
432 p. ; 22 cm.
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...
15) Power play
Author
Formats
Description
Recruited by an ambitious senatorial candidate, astronomer Jake Ross is directed to promote a new innovation for cheap energy, a situation that is complicated by the technology's hazards and the extreme tactics used by both political rivals.
16) Survival
Author
Series
Star quest trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
333 pages ; cm.
Description
Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels. In Surivival, a human team sent to scout a few hundred lightyears in front of the death wave encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences. These 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...
17) Rescue mode
Author
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 25 cm
Description
When the first human mission to Mars is devastated by a meteoroid strike, the spacecraft's survivors struggle against impossible odds while decision-makers on Earth confront bureaucratic political forces.
18) Powersat
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 25cm.
19) Power surge
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 22 cm.
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.
20) Power challenges
Author
Series
Jake Ross volume 4
Publisher
Caezik SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor/Shahid Mahmud Publisher
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 24 cm.
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....
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