

Apes and Angels
Author: Ben Bova
Series: Star Quest Trilogy #3
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/22/2016
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Ben Bova
Series: Star Quest Trilogy #3
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/22/2016
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Ben Bova, six-time Hugo Award winner, received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005.
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.
Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards, as well as more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, and been named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.
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
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
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
Besides some strange individual character choices, it's really just a good, enjoyable, entertaining sci-fi novel.......more
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
“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