

Exiled from Earth
Author: Ben Bova
Series: Exiles Series #1
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 5 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 10/02/2018
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: 10/02/2018
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.
In a lot of ways, this felt like a prequel to the story. A bit of a side-quest. The majority of the book was not set in space, but on earth. It wasn't a bad story, it just wasn't the story I thought I signed up to read. That said, it ends with the promise of the realm story taking place in book 2, so......more
For a book as short as this, it was better than I expected. I just wanted something short, fun, and spacey, but instead got the beginning of an exciting expedition to space. The writing is great, and the events cover quite a bit of time considering its length. In it, a group of scientists are exiled......more
It does not age well... at all. I am ignoring the incorrect scientific and technological predictions. That stuff happens. (Where's my flying car?) Nope, it's the blatant racism and misogyny that hasn't done that genre any services. The brave, white man, computer nerd is fighting to save us from the e......more
I set out with expectations that were too high and have finished up duly disappointed. For some reason I had associated and confused the author with Denis E. Taylor and was expecting something as well written as the 'Bobiverse' books. This book probably doesn't deserve to be compared with that much......more
Der Computerspezialist Lou arbeitet in einem Genetiklabor. Die Wissenschaftler stehen kurz davor, den genetischen Code zu knacken. Dann können sie Menschen nach Maß bauen. Supermenschen aber auch Untermenschen. Da taucht plötzlich ein Marshall auf, nimmt Lou fest und will ihn ohne Begründung in die......more