Empire Builders, Ben Bova
Empire Builders, Ben Bova
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Empire Builders

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki; Directed by Judy Young

Unabridged: 11 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/22/2010

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Dan Randolph never plays by the rules. A hellraising 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 twentyfirst privateer, Randolph broke the political stranglehold on space exploration, and became one of the world's richest men in the bargain. Now an ecological crisis threatens Earthand the same politicians that Randolph outwitted the first time want to impose a world dictatorship to deal with it. Dan Randolph knows that the answer lies in more human freedom, not lessand in the boundless resources of space. But can he stay free long enough to give the world that chance?

About Ben Bova

Ben Bova is the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including Able One, Leviathans of Jupiter, and the Grand Tour novels, including Titan, winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and in 2008 he won the Robert A. Heinlein Award "for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature." He is 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. Dr. Bova's writings have predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), electronic book publishing, and much more. He lives in Florida.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Geoff on July 11, 2017

This outing for Dan Rudolph is perfectly readable as a stand-alone novel and has more of the gung-ho chauvinism and courageousness that is typical of early Bova. Set in an alternate timeline, Empire Builders still roughly adheres to the Grand Tour series, however it is less about science fiction tha......more

Goodreads review by Graff on February 02, 2025

The Grand Tour 03 Empire Builders by Ben Bova challenging informative mysterious reflective sad tense Slow-paced Plot or character-driven? Plot Strong character development? It's complicated Loveable characters? It's complicated Diverse cast of characters? Yes Flaws of characters are a main focus? It's com......more

Goodreads review by فرهاد on December 02, 2023

After powersat which Bova wrote in 2005 for a very beginning of the grant tour, this is the second and political games and environmental reasons for an economical game started by CEOs and governments. It still has technological aspects aside political dialogue which is the entire book as Privateers......more

Goodreads review by JP on May 09, 2019

In Powersat, the big bads were terrorists. In Privateers, the Russians. In The Empire Builders it's... global warming and the mob? Given how times have changed, it's amusing to see the specter of a 'greenhouse cliff' looming over the world, with no one believing at first that such a thing is even po......more

Goodreads review by Brian on August 18, 2020

If you are completing the grand tour, skip this one, at least until all others are read. It is not consistent with the timeline/events in rest of the books anyway. Builders is said to be the worst of the series, except for privateers, and typical of early Bova. That's disappointing as it may now tai......more

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