Moonwar

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Ben Bova’s extraordinary Moonbase Saga continues with a breathtaking near-future adventure rich in character and incident.

Seven years after the indomitable Doug Stavenger has realized his cherished dream of establishing a colony on the inhospitable lunar surface, Moonbase is a thriving community, a marvel of scientific achievement created and supported by nanotechnology: virus-sized machines that can build, cure, and destroy. But nanotechnology has been declared illegal by the home planet’s leaders, and a powerful despot is determined to lay claim to Stavenger’s peaceful city - or obliterate it, if necessary. The people of Moonbase, a colony with no arms or military, must now defend themselves from earthborn aggression with the only weapon at their disposal: the astonishing technology that sustains their endangered home.

About the author: Ben Bova, six-time winner of the Hugo Award, is the author of over one hundred futuristic novels and nonfiction books. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and his novel Titan won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel of 2006.

©1998 Ben Bova (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“Ranks up there with Mars as one of Bova’s very best.” ( St. Petersburg Times)

“An exciting high-tech adventure…Spies, fanatics, sexy women, and broad expanses abound as technology and good planning overcome brute force and canny capitalists…Exciting and fun.” ( Publishers Weekly)

“Veteran SF author Bova remains one of the genre’s best at creating suspense-filled high-tech dramas…[A] top-notch story.” ( Library Journal)

Classic Bova

Scientists and engineers vs a small army. Live through the characters struggles and enjoy cleverness vs power.

Thrilling, smart, kinda prophetic

Great book. incredible attention to detail and use of communications and technology to build tension and create drama. Even some of the slightly dated bits (no smartphones, etc) are quaintly ironic in that it's really more about people's lack of communication or empathy rather than the kind of devices Bova envisioned. Readers should know that this has stereotypes, idioms, and some imagery that maybe wouldn't pass muster today in terms of cultural sensitivity and inclusiveness, but those elements actually work to show how racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, and intolerance make ignorant, hateful people (and sometimes the "good guys") think and behave.

Even better than the last one

I am listening to the series, and this one turned out really well. The narrator is excellent and he does a great job.

Great Sequel!!

What did you love best about Moonwar?

The inventiveness of the characters in a tough situation is both funny and believable!

Another great Bova book, like moon life

If you like outer syfy then Bova is your author. Great story line about life on the moon.