Death Wave, Ben Bova
Death Wave, Ben Bova
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Death Wave

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 10 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/17/2015

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind’s expansion beyond the solar system.In Ben Bova’s previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system, where 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 out. 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.

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 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 Graff on June 24, 2021

3.5 Stars Well, I finally started my trek through a few books by Ben Bova. I started the Star Quest Trilogy, which seems to have FOUR books in it, and the three my wife bought me are (by Goodreads standards) books 2, 3, and 4. I was thoroughly confused. I then wrote Ben Bova via his website and got h......more

Goodreads review by John (JP) on February 02, 2016

Death Wave is a continuation of the story started in Bova's New Earth. It is set in i Bova's Grand Tour series of novels. Unlike those books which are clearly rooted in hard science or the speculation of where technology will be, this book is rooted in political intrigue. I think the story suffers b......more

Goodreads review by Anita on February 04, 2017

The story includes a woman who is from another star system and is human created by a race of machines from genetic material from Earth. Within her brain is the ability to communicate at faster than light speed. I found this aspect of the story intriguing along with communication in general in this f......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on March 21, 2016

A good straight forward story that spans both light years and centuries but in the end it is more a treatise on the human condition as all good sci-fi is want to be - Ben Bova is a master and his experience shines through here.......more

Goodreads review by Leigh on July 24, 2021

As I was reading this book, I realized that the central theme of both it and the one immediately before it (New Earth) is trust. In particular, how do you establish trust between two peoples who have basically nothing in common? In New Earth, there was the problem of getting humans to trust that the......more

Quotes

“Brings space traveler Jordan Kell back to his native soil…The settings and culture are vividly rendered.” Publishers Weekly

“Sequel to New Earth, in which humans explored a planet orbiting the star Sirius that turned out to be inhabited. By human-aliens…[and] Bova supplies sufficient fresh detail.” Kirkus Reviews

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