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5) Farside
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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.
7) Uranus
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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...
8) 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...
11) Survival
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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...
12) City of darkness
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A teenage boy explores Manhattan, an obsolete city open only to tourists, and becomes involved with the gangs which fight among themselves for survival.
Author
Publisher
St Martins Pr
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 ofthe 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...
14) Apes and angels
Author
Series
Star Quest novels (Ben Bova) volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
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...
15) Jupiter
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Overview: A novel of one of the strangest places imaginable, a place where hydrogen flows as a liquid, a place with a lightless ocean ten times wider than the entire earth, a place where cyclones larger than planets rage for centuries at a time. Grant Archer merely wanted to study astrophysics, to work quietly as an astronomer on the far side of the moon. But the forces of the New Morality, the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run twenty-first...
16) Mars life
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2008]
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...
18) Earth
Author
Series
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...
19) New Earth
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"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 a one-way mission. The trip takes eighty years each way, so even if they are able to get...
20) Power failure
Author
Series
Jake Ross novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jake Ross continues to work within the corrosive, power-playing atmosphere of Washington, D.C., while advising Senator Frank Tomlinson in order to try and make a difference. By the author of Power Surge.
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