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AMAZING TALES VOLUME 186

BEN BOVA ET AL.

Dive into the captivating universe of "Amazing Tales Volume 186", where the boundaries of reality stretch and the human spirit is tested against the vast unknown. This anthology weaves together themes of isolation, power, and the enduring quest for survival in the face of cosmic challenges. In "Answer, Please Answer", the stark, frozen expanse of the South Pole sets the stage f...

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NEW EARTH

BEN BOVA

"Fans of hard sf will enjoy this space adventure" that follows Farside in the Grand Tour series from the six-time Hugo Award winner ( Library Journal). 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 explorati...

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FUTURE CRIME

BEN BOVA

Future Crime is a collection of six short stories and two novels by reknowned science fiction author Ben Bova! From the Foreword: "Will crime always be with us? Yes, in the sense that every society sets down rules of conduct, and there will be members of every society who are not content to live within those rules. The important question is: How do we deal with such criminals? ...

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THE SAM GUNN OMNIBUS

BEN BOVA

The collected science fiction adventures of Sam Gunn, astronaut, explorer, opportunist, and rogue—from a six-time Hugo Award–winning author. "By far the science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the science fiction world, and the world as a whole, is Ben Bova." — Ray Bradbury "Lovers of SF romance and adventure will welcome . . . The Sam Gunn Omnibus , which c...

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POWERSAT

BEN BOVA

Oil cartels and deadly terrorists threaten one man's work to generate clean energy in this science fiction thriller by the six-time Hugo Award–winning author. Two hundred thousand feet up, things go horribly wrong. The experimental low-orbit spaceplane Astro falls to earth over a trail hundreds of miles long. In the wake of this disaster is the beginning of the most important m...

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TITAN

BEN BOVA

From the six-time Hugo Award–winning author—humanity's future rests in the hands of team of Earth colonists orbiting Saturn in this science fiction saga. 2095. After long months of travel, the gigantic colony ship Goddard has at last made orbit around Saturn, carrying a population of more than 10,000 dissidents, rebels, extremists, and visionaries seeking a new life. Among Godd...

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FARSIDE

BEN BOVA

"One of [Bova's] best, and a classic use of the old SF theme of humanity reaching out for immortality among the stars." — Booklist (starred review) Six-time Hugo Award–winning author Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy,...

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THE PEACEKEEPERS

BEN BOVA

When four ancient cities are destroyed in a nuclear exchange, a force known as the Peacekeepers comes into being, charged with preventing any nation from attacking another with nuclear weapons. However, their power is soon challenged by a renegade terrorist with six nuclear bombs. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (D...

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OUT OF THE SUN

BEN BOVA

Out of the Sun is a thrilling short novel by Hugo Award-winning hard science fiction author Ben Bova . Written during the Cold War, it speculates on the use of what was then the cutting edge of military technology. Three virtually indestructible Cobra Mach 3 fighter planes crash and metals engineer Paul Sarko is asked to find out why. Amid spies and counterspies, with his own l...

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PRIVATEERS

BEN BOVA

In this "riveting account of the future," America has ceded the heavens to the tyrants and the renegades—from the six-time Hugo Award–winning author ( Wall Street Journal). The US has abandoned its quest for the stars, and an old enemy has moved in to fill the void. The potential wealth of the universe is now in malevolent hands. Rebel billionaire Dan Randolph—possessor of the ...

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BATTLE STATION

BEN BOVA

Battle Station collects short science fiction stories and nonfiction articles about the future of military space operations written by six-time Hugo Award winning author Ben Bova, whose hard science fiction has predicted the Space Race, virtual reality, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), and more. From the Foreword: "The sixteen stories and articles in this book deal...

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LEVIATHANS OF JUPITER

BEN BOVA

In Ben Bova's novel JUPITER, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter's hostile planetwide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environment and crushing pressures, Grant's team faced certain death as their ship malfunctioned and slowly sank to the planet's depths. However one of Jup...

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VOYAGERS II

BEN BOVA

Multi-Hugo Award-winning author Ben Bova continues the story of Earth's first extraterrestrial contact with Voyagers II: The Alien Within. Eighteen years ago, astronaut Keith Stoner had been the American member of a joint U.S.–Soviet mission to capture an alien ship that had entered the solar system. It was the greatest adventure in the history of Earth—but disaster struck when...

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VOYAGERS III

BEN BOVA

Keith Stoner lay frozen in an alien spacecraft for fifteen long years; during that time he came to be something more than just an astronaut, just a man. Stoner became partly alien hismelf--merged with an alien intelligence embodied in the nanotechnology that lived inside Stoner's body. The alien whose tomb that spacecraft was, brought humanity both a blessing and a deadly peril...

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THE RETURN

BEN BOVA

From the six-time Hugo Award-winning author of the Voyagers series comes the next installment, book four, Ben Bova's The Return In the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically frozen. After his body was eventually returned to Earth...

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MOONRISE

BEN BOVA

"[An] epic novel of lunar conquest" from the New York Times–bestselling and six-time Hugo Award–winning author of Mars ( Orlando Sentinel). 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 wor...

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RETURN TO MARS

BEN BOVA

The New York Times–bestselling and six-time Hugo Award–winning author's epic Grand Tour adventure continues. Jamie Waterman is returning to the red planet, this time in charge of an expedition in which he hopes to demonstrate that one can study Martian life not only for the sake of the pursuit but more, that it can be profitable. Waterman also hopes to revisit a part of the c...

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MARS

BEN BOVA

Considered one of Ben Bova's most famous Grand Tour novels: "A gripping, realistic tale of man's first expedition to the red planet. Don't miss it" (Terry Brooks, New York Times–bestselling author of The Shannara Chronicles). Jamie Waterman is a young Navaho geologist who is picked for the ground team of the first manned expedition to Mars. He will be joining an international...

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MOONWAR

BEN BOVA

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, it's existence, and even Stave...

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ABLE ONE

BEN BOVA

When a nuclear missile launched by a rogue North Korean faction explodes in space the resulting shockwave destroys the world's satellites, throwing global communication into chaos. The United States military satellites, designed to withstand such an assault, show that two more missiles are sitting on the launch pad in North Korea, ready to be deployed. Faced with the threat of ...

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THE IMMORTALITY FACTOR

BEN BOVA

Provocative, gripping, startling: 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 see a blasphemous attempt to play God. Suddenly, the possibility of immortality exists. Two brothers, both doctors, stand on opposite s...

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MARS LIFE

BEN BOVA

The action and excitement continue on Mars in this entry to the series of Planet novels from a science fiction master and six-time Hugo Award–winning author. "A gripping and convincing conclusion to the story begun in Mars . . . and Return to Mars. . . . Bova deftly captures the excitement of scientific discovery and planetary exploration. This compelling story, balancing act...

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TALES OF THE GRAND TOUR

BEN BOVA

Tales of humanity's near-future exploration of the Solar System, from a science fiction master and 6-time Hugo Award–winning author. "Bova's tales encompass good characters, high-tension adventure, thoughtful introspection, and a sense of wonder." — Booklist In novels like Mars and Moonbase, and Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, as well as Privateers, The Precipice, and The Ro...

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THE GREEN TRAP

BEN BOVA

A professor learns his scientist brother made a discovery worth killing for in this powerful thriller from a Hugo Award–winning author. "Bova brings his usual imaginative plotting and attention to detail to this contemporary thriller, and fans of the author, as well as those of Michael Crichton-style science thrillers, should be well pleased." — Booklist Microbiologist Michael ...

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MERCURY

BEN BOVA

An industrialist builds his dreams while a disgraced scientist plots revenge in this dramatic science fiction novel by the six-time Hugo Award–winning author. The closest planet to our Sun, Mercury is a rocky, barren, heat-scorched world. But there are those who hope to find wealth in its desolation . . . Saito Yamagata thinks Mercury's position will make it an ideal orbit poin...

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THE ROCK RATS

BEN BOVA

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...

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VENUS

BEN BOVA

A deadly race unfolds on the hostile planet in this science fiction adventure by the six-time Hugo Award–winning author. The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered with clouds of sulfuric a...

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GREMLINS GO HOME

BEN BOVA

Several hundred years ago a band of explorers were marooned on Planet Earth. Alas, the Little People are not strong on gadgetry, and they have had to while away the centuries of their youth, living for the day when they could get off this god forsaken mudball, this most benighted, desolate--and boring!--planetary slum in the Known Universe. At last, the time has come. All they ...

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