Read Series: The Grand Tour
by Author Ben Bova
Mars Life (2008)
Imagine that you were a scientist exploring Mars and you discovered the ruins of an extinct civilization. Then imagine that you discovered unrefutable fossils. This would cause quite a sensation back on Earth, wouldn't it? Don't count on it if right-wing religionists are in power. Imagine that yo...
Venus (2001)
“Dad will kill you if he finds out.”Alexander Humphries led the first manned expedition to Venus, and became among the first to die there. It was an unexplained equipment malfunction that doomed Alex’s ship and crew to rest on the toxic surface of Earth’s twin forever. In the two years since, t...
Mercury (2006)
This is the second of Ben Bova’s ‘Grand Tour of the Solar System’ series that I’ve read. The other one was ‘Jupiter’ and I think this one is better. This is definitely a story about people.It is about how Saito Yamagata, business tycoon, achieves his dream even as he fails his life; about who Dan...
Powersat (2006)
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 ...
Saturn (2004)
Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us:SATURNEarth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis after crisis has given aut...
Titan (2007)
This book carries on where Saturn ends. The 11 mile long by 4 mile wide space habitat Goddard has reached Saturn and is in orbit around it’s moon Titan.Science, politics, technology and human foibles all get put in a bender, shaken; not stirred, and what comes out is highly entertaining.The main ...
Jupiter (2002)
One of the blessings/curses of working in a mall is the convenience of a nearby bookstore. The blessing is that I love books… perusing them, sampling them, browsing, and ultimately buying them. The only problem is that I’ve spent probably a decade buying books I never have time to read. I finally...
New Earth (2013)
I really want to like this follow-up to "Farside." I really wanted it to be an improvement in terms of storytelling, character development, and style. Unfortunately, aside from a few bright spots, it wasn't. Same flat characters, same flat dialogue. It reads like the first draft of a script of th...