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1) Privateers
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
America has ceded the heavens to the tyrants-and the renegades.
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...
2) Venus
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
Corporate tycoon Martin Humphries offers a ten-billion-dollar prize to anyone who can land on Venus and retrieve the remains of his eldest son, who died trying to land on the planet years earlier.
3) Death wave
Author
Series
Star Quest novels (Ben Bova) volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In Ben Bova's previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system. They discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien AI survived, and it revealed to Jordan Kell that an explosion in the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has created a wave of deadly radiation, expanding out from the core toward Earth. Unless the human race acts to save itself, all life on Earth will be wiped...
Author
Series
Orion volume 6
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Orion will battle the gods themselves to see that Arthur fulfills his destiny. But can even he save Arthur from the tragedy that awaits him?
Author
Series
Jake Ross novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning writer Ben Bova returns with another tense political thriller starring Jake Ross, science advisor to Senator Frank Tomlinson, as they continue their complex power maneuvers they began in Power Play and Power Surge. Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he's learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered...
6) Mars
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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
8) Uranus
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A religious idealist, a billionaire financier, and a prestigious scientist battle for control over a space mission to search for life on Uranus.
9) Sam Gunn Jr
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After finding out he is the son of the famous intergalactic explorer Sam Gunn, Sam Gunn Jr. sets off to fulfill his father's left-behind legacy. Junior takes a journey through the stars, falling in love with beautiful women and leaving his mark everywhere he ventures. Soon, however, this trip through the universe takes a turn when Junior lands on Saturn, leaving him to learn about a recent scientific discovery that will change everything, possibly...
10) Power play
Author
Series
Jake Ross novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jake Ross, a university astronomer, wants nothing more than to teach a few classes each semester and continue his research. Instead, he finds himself aggressively recruited to be the science advisor to Frank Tomlinson, an ambitious politician with his eye on the US Senate. Tomlinson is in need of an edge that will allow him to defeat his opponent at the polls, and Dr. Ross can contribute just that: MHD. MHD, or magnetohydrodynamics, is a new innovation...
11) New Earth
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 20
Language
English
Description
"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...
12) Survival
Author
Series
Star Quest novels (Ben Bova) volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels. In Surivival, a human team sent to scout a few hundred lightyears in front of the death wave encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences.These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons, and have survived earlier "death waves," gamma ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient,...
13) Moonrise
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
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...
14) Mars life
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 15
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program. Meanwhile, Carter Carleton, an anthropologist...
15) The return
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically frozen. After his body was eventually returned to Earth and revived, Stoner discovered that he had acquired alien powers. Putting them to use, he built a new starship and left Earth. Now, after more than a century of exploring the stars, Keith Stoner
...Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this new anthology, Ben Bova has compiled fourteen of his favorite short stories. Each story includes an all-new introduction with compelling insight into the narrative. Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction."--Publisher.
17) Neptune
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the outer settlements of the human-occupied solar system, there are rumors about what was found deep under Neptune's frozen seas when a Hungarian billionaire's ship was lost with all hands. But the rumors are far more tame than the reality. When the billionaire's daughter mounts a mission to find the truth, her discoveries will up-end humanity's understanding of our origins on Earth"--
18) Powersat
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
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...
19) Return to Mars
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On Mars a conflict breaks out between two factions of an expedition, led by half-Navajo astronaut Jamie Waterman. One side wants to exploit the planet for commerce, the other to keep it ecologically pure. By the author of Mars.
Author
Series
Billionaire's Club volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape. Art Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a driving vision: send humans to Mars. Thrasher has a plan. Form a 'club' of billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. A billionaire himself and the president of a successful company, it will take all his wiles and master manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks and...
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