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  | | The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories (Signet Classics) by Jack London, Dr. Earle Labor, Ben Bova, Earle G. Labor Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2013 by Signet ISBN-13: 978-0-451-41585-1, ISBN: 0-451-41585-X "Paperback. Pub Date :2013-06-04 Pages: 347 Language: English Publisher: Publication Date : June 2013 Customer Rating: ( 0 evaluate existing ) Impressed into service aboard the seal-hunting Ghost. Humphrey Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a tense shipboard drama. With a wary eye. he watches the vessel's abusive captain. Wolf Larsen. an enigma who can abandon two sailors on the open water. then return to reading the moral ph ..." |
 | | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two-B The Great Novellas (Paperback) by Ben Bova, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl Paperback, Published 2019 by Arc Manor, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-61242-428-6, ISBN: 1-61242-428-7 |
 | | Venus(2nd Edition) (The Grand Tour) by Ben Bova Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2018 by Tor Science Fiction ISBN-13: 978-1-250-18668-3, ISBN: 1-250-18668-4 "Venus is a fast-paced adventure based on the latest real scientific discoveries―from Ben Bova, a master of science-based SF and author of Apes and AngelsThe surface of Venus can melt aluminum, the air pressure can crush spacecraft landers like tin cans, and the atmosphere is a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and poisonous gases.This is where Van Humphries must go. Or die trying.His older brother died in the first attempt to land a man ..." |
 | | Orion Among the Stars by Ben Bova Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1996 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-3511-2, ISBN: 0-8125-3511-1 "We had found other intelligent species among the stars. Some were far below us in technological and cultural development: cave dwellers or simple herders and pastoralists. By and large these were left alone by the expanding human species ..." |
 | | Uranus (Outer Planets Trilogy) by Ben Bova Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2020 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-1-250-29654-2, ISBN: 1-250-29654-4 "Ben Bova, author of Earth, continues his exploration of the future of a human-settled Solar System with the science fiction action adventure Uranus, the first of his Outer Planets trilogy. 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 l ..." |
 | | Earth (The Grand Tour) by Ben Bova Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2019 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-9719-5, ISBN: 0-7653-9719-6 "Earth is the latest science fiction novel by novel by six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova, author of Apes and Angels and SurvivalA 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 shieldi ..." |
 | | Power Failure A Jake Ross Political Thriller (Jake Ross Series) by Ben Bova Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2018 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-8803-2, ISBN: 0-7653-8803-0 "Award-winning writer Ben Bova takes on the power-players in D.C. in Power Failure, the taut near-future SF thriller and sequel to Power Play and Power Surge.Starring Jake Ross, science advisor to Senator Frank Tomlinson, the two continue their complex power maneuvers to force the United States into embracing real energy independence through solar power generation technology. Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference , ..." |
 | | Titan Uk(Updated) by Ben Bova Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2006 by Hodder Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-340-82397-2, ISBN: 0-340-82397-6 |
 | | Mercury (The Grand Tour) by Ben Bova Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2006 by Tor Science Fiction ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4314-7, ISBN: 0-7653-4314-2 "The planet closest 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 makes it an ideal place to generate power to propel starships into deep space. Astrobiologist Victor Molina thinks the water at Mercury's poles may harbor evidence of life. Bishop Elliot Danvers has been sent by the Earth-based "New Morality" to keep close ..." |
 | | Powersat(Reprint) A Thriller of Technology, Terrorism, and Hope (The Grand Tour) by Ben Bova Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2006 by Tor Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4817-3, ISBN: 0-7653-4817-9 "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 it its wake is the beginning of the most important mission in the history of space.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 generato ..." |
 | | The Rock Rats The Asteroid Wars II (The Asteroid Wars) by Ben Bova Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2002 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-340-76958-4, ISBN: 0-340-76958-0 |
 | | The Story of Light by Ben Bova Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2002 by Sourcebooks ISBN-13: 978-1-4022-0009-0, ISBN: 1-4022-0009-9 "The story of light affects us every day of our lives...In highly visual, entertaining and easy-to-understand language, famed science writer Ben Bova explains the many ways light affects our minds, bodies and universe.--Why do people kiss with their eyes closed?--What exactly is quantum physics?--Why is it difficult to swat a mosquito?--Is the universe expanding or contracting?--How do lasers work?--What do we "see" when we dream?In this ..." |
 | | THE PRECIPICE THE ASTEROID WARS I (THE ASTEROID WARS) by Ben Bova Hardcover, 439 Pages, Published 2001 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-340-76960-7, ISBN: 0-340-76960-2 |
 | | The Kinsman Saga(1st Edition) by Ben Bova Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2000 by Harper Voyager ISBN-13: 978-0-380-79317-4, ISBN: 0-380-79317-2 "Hero or Killer?In a startling future that's coming closer every year, Chet Kinsman is an astronaut ace who has done everything in space--including committying the first murder. It's a secret he can never escape, not even on the Moon, where he's head of the first U.S. lunar colony.But suddenly, a series of shocking yet strangely inevitable circumstances forces Kinsman to confront his hidden past and decide Earth's destiny. In a desperate ..." |
 | | Sam Gunn Forever(1st Edition) by Ben Bova Paperback, 277 Pages, Published 1998 by Harpercollins Canada / Science Fictio ISBN-13: 978-0-380-79726-4, ISBN: 0-380-79726-7 "He's ba-ack! Sam Guun, the pint-sized hero without peer -- or scruples -- the finest. astronaut NASA ever trained...and dumped. A man with the ego and stature of a Napoleon, the business acumen of a P.T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a newly pubescent teenage boy, he has a nose for trouble money, and women -- though not necessarily in that order. Whether he's suing the Pope, coming to the aid of voluptuous twin sisters in the "virt ..." |
 | | The Immortality Factor(Updated) by Ben Bova Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 1995 by Hodder Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-450-61335-7, ISBN: 0-450-61335-6 "Essef - When genetic research yields the hope of immortality, two brothers, both doctors, find themselves on opposite sides of the controversy, and they must bridge the gap that divides them on an issue that could mean nothing less than life or death for millions." |
 | | Empire Builders(1st Edition) by Ben Bova Paperback, 406 Pages, Published 1995 by Tor Science Fiction ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-1165-9, ISBN: 0-8125-1165-4 "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 ..." |
 | | Death Dream by Ben Bova Paperback, 656 Pages, Published 1994 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Import ISBN-13: 978-0-450-58881-5, ISBN: 0-450-58881-5 "Cyber World is destined to be the ultimate adult playground. Using virtual reality, players can fly jet fighters in combat, take part in the gunfight at OK Corral, or walk on the moon. These simulations are indistinguishable from reality and have a pulse-pounding - often terrifying - immediacy. Dan Santori has been hired by ParaReality, Inc. to make sure Cyber World opens on schedule. But the people who test the simulations have beg ..." |
 | | The Trikon Deception(1st Edition) by Ben Bova, William R. Pogue, Bill Pogue Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 1993 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-0735-5, ISBN: 0-8125-0735-5 "Aboard "Trikon," an orbiting space station manned by American, Japanese, and European scientists conducting research to save Earth's environment, American Dan Tighe discovers a lethal blend of international espionage and sabotage. Reissue." |
 | | To Save the Sun Ser. To Save the Sun by Ben Bova, A. J. Austin Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1993 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-1448-3, ISBN: 0-8125-1448-3 "While the Emperor of the Hundred Worlds guides a massive project that will outlive him, courtesans and bureaucrats scheme to halt his efforts or divert them to their own ends" |
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