

Death Wave
Author: Ben Bova
Series: Grand Tour Series #21
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 10 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/17/2015
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Ben Bova
Series: Grand Tour Series #21
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 10 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/17/2015
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
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.
Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and a multiaward-winning narrator, named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.
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
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
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
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
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
“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