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Grand tour of the solar system
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Bova, Ben, 1932-2020
Bova, Ben
Bova, Ben
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1) Powersat
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2005 | 1st hardcover ed | Forge | 400 p. ; 24 cm. | On Shelf Broomfield Fiction F Bov
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Two hundred thousand feet up, things go horribly wrong. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, falling to earth over a trail hundreds of miles long. And in its wake is the beginning of the most important mission in the history of spaceflight. Americans needs energy, and Dan Randolph is determined to give it to them. He dreams of an array of geosynchronous powersats, satellites that gather solar energy and beam it to generators...
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Dan Randolph never plays by the rules. A hell-raising maverick with no patience for fools, he is admired by his friends, feared by his enemies, and desired by the world's loveliest women. Acting as a twenty-first privateer, Randolph broke the political strangle-hold on space exploration, and became one of the world's richest men in the bargain. Now an ecological crisis threatens Earth-and the same politicians that Randolph outwitted the first time...
3) Moonrise
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[1996] | 1st ed | Avon Books | 417 p. ; 25 cm. | Available from another library
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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...
4) Mars
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1992 | 502 p. ; 25 cm. | On Shelf Broomfield Fiction F Bov
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1993 | 549 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf Broomfield Paperbacks PB Bov |
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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 team of astronauts and scientists. But once the crew land on the red planet, they soon discover they must battle not only the alien land on which they have invaded but earthbound bureaucrats as well. When they come face to face with a chasm ten times as deep and large as the Grand Canyon, all twenty-five...
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Moonwar
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Return to Mars
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2001 | 1st ed | Tor | 349 p. ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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[2005] | Unabridged | Audio Renaissance | 10 sound discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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8) Jupiter
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Astrophysicist Grant Archer is sent by the reactionary and censorious forces of the "New Morality" coalition to a research station in orbit around Jupiter, charged with spying on his fellow scientists.
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2002 | 1st ed | TOR | 384 p.; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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10) The silent war
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2004 | 1st ed | Tor Books | 379 p. ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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11) Saturn
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2003 | 1st ed | Tor | 412 p. ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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[2003] | Audio Renaissance | 11 sound discs (13.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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Titan
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13) The aftermath
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2007 | 1st ed | Tor | 396 p. ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in The Aftermath. In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the ore-carrier Syracuse. When the Syracuse stumbles into the middle of a military attack on the habitat Chrysalis, Victor flees in a control pod to draw the attacker's attention away from his family. Now, as his wife...
14) Mercury
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2005 | 1st ed | Tor | 319 p. ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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A tale of revenge and technological endeavor set on our solar system's most desolate stage. Despite Mercury's desolation, there are still those who hope to find diamonds in the rough. Saito Yamagata thinks Mercury's position will make it an ideal orbit point for satellites that could someday create enough power to propel starships into deep space. He hires Dante Alexios to bring his dreams to life. Astrobiologist Victor Molina thinks the water at...
15) Mars life
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2008 | 1st ed | Tor | 432 p. ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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16) Venus
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2000 | Tor | 382 p. ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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2001 | TOR | 405 p. ; 18 cm. | Available from another library
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The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system, its ground hot enough to melt aluminum, its air pressure high enough to crush spacecraft landers like tin cans, its atmosphere a choking mix of poisonous gases. This is where the frail young Van Humphries must go-or die trying. Years before, Van's older brother perished in the first attempt to land a man on Venus. Van's father has always hated him for being the one to survive. Now,...
17) The return
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2009 | Tor | 464 p. ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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2011 | 1st ed | Tor | 477 p. ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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What secrets lurk in the depths of Jupiter's oceans? In Ben Bova's novel Jupiter, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter's planet-wide 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 Jupiter's native creatures-a...
19) Farside
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2013 | 1st ed | Tor | 367 p. ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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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, and murder. Telescopes on Earth have detected an Earth-sized planet circling a star some thirty light-years away. Now the race is on to get pictures of that distant world, photographs and spectra that show whether or not the planet is truly like Earth-and...
20) New Earth
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2014 | First mass market edition | 384 pages ; 18 cm | On Shelf Broomfield Paperbacks PB Bova | ||||||||||
2013 | First edition | 384 pages ; 22 cm | Available from another library
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"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...
21) Earth
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2019 | First edition | Tor | 350 pages ; 22 cm | On Shelf Broomfield Fiction F Bova
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"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...