

End of Exile
Author: Ben Bova
Series: Exiles Series #1
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 5 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 12/04/2018
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Ben Bova
Series: Exiles Series #1
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 5 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 12/04/2018
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Ben Bova (1932–2020), American author of more than one hundred books of science fact and fiction, was awarded posthumously the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. His work earned six Hugo Awards. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and his novel Titan won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel of 2006. In his early career, he was a technical editor for Project Vanguard, the United States’s first effort to launch a satellite into space in 1958. He then was a science writer for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, which built the heat shields for the Apollo 11 module. He held the position of president emeritus of the National Space Society and served as president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.
An apt ending to the trilogy featuring similar plot elements to both of the first two stories. Conceptually and technically similar to some early Star Trek episodes as well, I thought. I enjoyed the ideas in the series more than the characters and their dramas.......more
I'm sure I wouldn't rate this book so highly now. However, being a series that launched me into science-fiction genre, I have to give credit where it is due.......more
3.5 stars, rounded up b/c audio book (especially since it was on the audible plus catalog, so I didn't have to buy it).......more
My payoff for making it through the first two books! Extra star for nostalgia; this is one of the first scifi books I read as a kid and it made a huge impression on me. Looking back I am sure I identified with the hero, the young engineer whose talents no one respected but ended up saving everyone's......more