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The Precipice
- Book One of The Asteroid Wars
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Amanda Karr, cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Martin Humphries, fabulously wealthy heir of the Humphries Trust, also knows that space-based industry is the way of the future. But unlike Randolph, he does not care if Earth perishes in the process.
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Space Opera Fun ( not for Kids)
- By Lori on 02-08-06
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The Precipice
- Book One of The Asteroid Wars
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Amanda Karr, cast
- Series: The Asteroid Wars, Book 1, The Grand Tour, Book 8
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 02-01-05
- Language: English
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 2-A
- The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America
- By: Theodore Sturgeon, Ben Bova - editor, Lester del Rey, and others
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla, Kevin T. Collins, Mark Boyett, and others
- Length: 24 hrs and 53 mins
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This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing 11 great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field. Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country.
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'Greatest' is the word...
- By dutch wolff on 06-21-18
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 2-A
- The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla, Kevin T. Collins, Mark Boyett, full cast, Graham Halstead, L. J. Ganser, Michael David Axtell
- Length: 24 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 02-27-18
- Language: English
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The Sam Gunn Omnibus
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Richard Brewer, Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, and others
- Length: 29 hrs and 33 mins
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A hero without peer or scruples, Sam Gunn has a nose for trouble, money, and women, though not necessarily in that order. A man with the ego (and stature) of a Napoleon, the business acumen of a P. T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a teenage boy, Sam is the finest astronaut NASA ever trained and dumped. But more than money, more than women, Sam Gunn loves justice—and he really does love money and women.
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Quaint collection of short stories
- By HL on 10-04-13
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The Sam Gunn Omnibus
- Narrated by: Richard Brewer, Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stephen Hoye, Hillary Huber, Don Leslie, Moria Quirk, Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: Sam Gunn
- Length: 29 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-30-11
- Language: English
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The Silent War
- Book Three of The Asteroid Wars
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Amanda Karr, Christian Noble, cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is led by indomitable Texan Pancho Lane, Humphries Space Systems by the rich and ruthless Martin Humphries, and their fight is over nothing less than resources of the Asteroid Belt itself. Fighting escalates and the lines between commerce and politics, boardroom and bedroom blur. And the keys to victory will include physics, nanotechnology, and cold hard cash.
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Excellent Bova
- By L. on 05-29-06
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The Silent War
- Book Three of The Asteroid Wars
- Narrated by: Amanda Karr, Christian Noble, cast
- Series: The Asteroid Wars, Book 3, The Grand Tour, Book 11
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 02-01-05
- Language: English
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Mercury
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Arte Johnson, Moira Quirk
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Despite Mercury's desolateness, 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.
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One of Ben Bova's best
- By Daved Baker on 07-18-05
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Mercury
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Arte Johnson, Moira Quirk
- Series: The Grand Tour, Book 16
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-06-05
- Language: English
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Leviathans of Jupiter
- The Grand Tour Series
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Samantha Eggar, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
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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 city-sized leviathan—saved the doomed ship.
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Deeply Flawed
- By Conker on 07-10-12
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Leviathans of Jupiter
- The Grand Tour Series
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Samantha Eggar, Rosalyn Landor, Stefan Rudnicki, Judy Young
- Series: The Grand Tour, Book 14
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 02-01-11
- Language: English
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Sam Gunn Jr.
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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In his first-ever adventure, Sam Gunn Jr. sets off to fulfill his father’s left-behind mission of interplanetary enterprising. He soon learns his father’s shoes are tough to fill, but he is up for the task. Junior takes a journey through the stars, falling in love with beautiful women and leaving his unique mark everywhere he ventures. Soon, however, this trip through the universe takes a dangerous turn when Junior lands on Saturn and learns about a recent scientific discovery that will change everything, possibly forever.
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Sam Gunn Jr.
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: Sam Gunn
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 03-08-22
- Language: English
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The Aftermath
- Book Four of The Asteroid Wars
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stephen Hoye, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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When the spaceship Viking encounters a variety of adversaries in the Asteroid Belt - including a prospector and his family, a cyborg, the solar system's greatest sculptor, and an evil industrialist - a confrontation begins that transforms the human solar system.
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I've come to know Ben Bova at least in part.
- By Larry on 04-02-18
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The Aftermath
- Book Four of The Asteroid Wars
- Narrated by: Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stephen Hoye, Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Asteroid Wars, Book 4, The Grand Tour, Book 12
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 08-06-07
- Language: English
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Death Wave
- The Star Quest Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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When Kell and his team return to Earth many years after their departure, they find that their world has changed almost beyond recognition. Not only has a second wave of greenhouse flooding caused sea levels to rise, but society has been changed by the consequences of the climate shift. Few people want to face Jordan Kell's news. He must convince Earth's new rulers that the human race is in danger of extinction unless it acts to forestall the death wave coming from the galaxy's heart.
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The Strongest Book in the Trilogy, but Not Great
- By The Meatball on 07-25-21
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Death Wave
- The Star Quest Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: Star Quest, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-17-15
- Language: English
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Mars
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 18 hrs and 51 mins
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Half-Navajo geologist Jamie Waterman has been selected for the ground team of the first manned expedition to our mysterious neighbor planet. Joining an international team of astronauts and scientists, he endures the rigors of training, the dangers of traveling an incredible distance in space, the challenges of an alien landscape, and the personal and political conflicts that arise when the team must face the most shocking discovery of all.
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Solid Near Future Sci-Fi
- By Ben on 05-21-09
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Mars
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Grand Tour, Book 4
- Length: 18 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-19-08
- Language: English
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Venus: The Grand Tour Series
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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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.
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Someone turn on the air conditioning please...
- By Matthew on 09-03-14
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Venus: The Grand Tour Series
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Grand Tour, Book 18
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-04-11
- Language: English
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Jupiter
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Christian Noble, David Warner
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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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 21st-century America, have other plans for him. To his distress, Grant is torn from his young bride and sent to a research station in orbit around Jupiter, charged with the task of spying on the scientists who work there.
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Great Stuff!
- By Kevin on 08-12-05
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Jupiter
- Narrated by: Christian Noble, David Warner
- Series: The Grand Tour, Book 9
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-06-05
- Language: English
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Return to Mars
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 16 hrs
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Six years after the first manned Martian expedition, a second has been announced, this one motivated purely by its profitable potential. Half-Navajo geologist Jamie Waterman, a veteran of the first mission, feels his conflicted soul beckoning him back to the eerie, unforgiving planet. As commander of the new exploratory team, he will have to contend with a bitter and destructive rivalry, a disturbing new emotional attraction, and deadly, incomprehensible "accidents" that appear to be sabotage.
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Fun continuation of Mars, but has Editing Issues
- By J on 10-07-13
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Return to Mars
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Grand Tour, Book 7
- Length: 16 hrs
- Release date: 09-19-08
- Language: English
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The Kinsman Saga
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 19 hrs and 18 mins
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In a startling future that's coming closer every year, Chet Kinsman is an astronaut ace who has done everything one can in space - including commit 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. A series of shocking yet strangely inevitable circumstances will force Kinsman to confront his hidden past and decide Earth's destiny. In a desperate countdown to nuclear annihilation, Kinsman will struggle against a deadly dilemma: if he rescues the world, he risks destroying himself.
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Better than reported!
- By Matthew on 11-01-13
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The Kinsman Saga
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 19 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-15-13
- Language: English
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Moonrise
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
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A 21st century U.S. aerospace company has developed the first permanent human settlement on the Moon, made possible by major scientific breakthroughs, particularly in the practical use of nanotechnology. But conflict within the company's founding family and growing protests against the technology from radical environmentalists and religious fundamentalists on Earth put Moonbase in danger of closure
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A worthy read / listen
- By Brian on 09-03-13
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Moonrise
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Grand Tour, Book 5
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-15-09
- Language: English
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Moonwar
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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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.
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Didn't see it coming, not for a second!
- By John Pierce on 02-20-13
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Moonwar
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Grand Tour, Book 6
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-30-12
- Language: English
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Titan
- A Tale of Cataclysmic Discovery
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir, Stephen Hoye, Amanda Karr, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
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Master storyteller Ben Bova continues his multi-volume "Grand Tour" saga chronicling humanity's exploration of near space with Titan, a fast-paced thriller focused on the first manned mission to the Solar System's most intriguing world. Skillfully blending high drama, passionate characters, and daring speculation with the latest discoveries from the current Cassini/Huygens probe of Saturn's moon, Bova has crafted a heart-stopping tale of epic adventure on mankind's next frontier.
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Great voice tallent wasted on a lame book
- By J. Carpenter on 09-25-07
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Titan
- A Tale of Cataclysmic Discovery
- Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir, Stephen Hoye, Amanda Karr, Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Grand Tour, Book 15
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 02-16-06
- Language: English
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Uranus
- The Outer Planets Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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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‘ 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 planet Uranus.
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All new story in a familiar universe.
- By Paul on 10-04-21
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Uranus
- The Outer Planets Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Grand Tour, Book 24, Outer Planets Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 09-28-21
- Language: English
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Privateers
- The Grand Tour Series, Book 2
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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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 largest privately owned company in space - intends to weaken the stranglehold the new despotic masters of the solar system have on the lucrative ore industry. But when the mineral-rich asteroid he sets in orbit around the Earth is commandeered by the enemy, and his unarmed workers are slaughtered in cold blood, the course of Randolph’s life is changed forever.
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Naive Madame President
- By Jimmie C on 01-09-22
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Privateers
- The Grand Tour Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Grand Tour, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 12-14-21
- Language: English
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Apes and Angels
- The Star Quest Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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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 28,000 years ago. Every world it touched was wiped clean of all life. But it's possible to protect a planet from gamma radiation. Now, guided by the ancient intelligent machines called the Predecessors, men and women from Earth seek out those precious, rare worlds that harbor intelligent species, determined to save them.
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Pacing and Character Sensibility Issues
- By The Meatball on 07-25-21
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Apes and Angels
- The Star Quest Trilogy, Book 2
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: Star Quest, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 11-22-16
- Language: English
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