Apes and Angels, Ben Bova
Apes and Angels, Ben Bova
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Apes and Angels

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/22/2016

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind’s expansion beyond the solar system in Apes and Angels, the last installment in the Star Quest Trilogy. Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it. 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 twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth’s vicinity at the speed of light. Every world it touched was wiped clean of all life. But it’s possible to protect a planet from gamma radiation. Earth is safe.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 from the doom that is hurtling toward them.The crew of the Odysseus has arrived at Mithra Gamma, the third planet of the star Mithra, to protect the stone-age inhabitants from the Death Wave. But they’ll also have to protect themselves.

About Ben Bova

Ben Bova (1932-2020) was the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including Able One, Transhuman, Orion, the Star Quest Trilogy, and the Grand Tour novels, including Titan, winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. His many honors include the Isaac Asimov Memorial Award in 1996, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award “for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature” in 2008.Dr. Bova was President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, and a former editor of Analog and former fiction editor of Omni. As an editor, he won science fiction’s Hugo Award six times. His writings predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), electronic book publishing, and much more.In addition to his literary achievements, Bova worked for Project Vanguard, America’s first artificial satellite program, and for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, the company that created the heat shields for Apollo 11, helping the NASA astronauts land on the moon. He also taught science fiction at Harvard University and at New York City’s Hayden Planetarium and worked with such filmmakers as George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry.

About Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom, CBE, is an English film and stage actress, known for leading roles in plays such as Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day’s Journey into Night, along with nearly sixty films and countless television roles, during a career spanning over six decades. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen’s birthday honors for services to drama.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and a multiaward-winning narrator, named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on February 04, 2017

I love this book. This, to me, is the perfect sci-fi story. Scientists arrive in a distant solar system to study alien life and ecosystems. The interactions between the researchers is extremely believable and suspenseful. Bova is a master of this type of story. I can't say enough good things about t......more

Goodreads review by Graff on June 25, 2021

3.5 Stars - this is a slightly better book than the previous book in this series (Death Wave). I enjoyed them both, but they both have flaws. I gave it 3.5 Stars, with a 3 Star Goodreads rating. This is NOT a direct sequel to the previous book, though it happens shortly (narrative wise) afterwards. T......more

Goodreads review by Cody on April 07, 2021

Follows the story line setup by Death Wave but does not include any previous characters from the series. This is solely about the flight crew that travels to setup the energy shields to protect against the death wave......more

Goodreads review by Kadin on January 13, 2025

Besides some strange individual character choices, it's really just a good, enjoyable, entertaining sci-fi novel.......more

Goodreads review by John (JP) on December 20, 2016

Apes and Angels is first contact story, a study in the intricacies of the academic hierarchy and a love story. I liked the premise of the book. It asks questions. What do you do when the prime directive says don't it interfere with a primitive culture yet your personal morality says you must. How do......more

Quotes

“The final book in Bova’s Star Quest trilogy is an engaging introspection into tribes, humanity, and how much of academia is essentially tribal in nature.” Booklist

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