Author: Ben Bova
Series: Exiles Series #1
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 4 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/06/2018
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.
Claire Bloom, CBE, is an English film and stage actress, known for leading roles in plays such as Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day’s Journey into Night, along with nearly sixty films and countless television roles, during a career spanning over six decades. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen’s birthday honors for services to drama.
I definitely enjoyed this one more than the first entry in the series, although still finished up with mixed feelings. The main plot feature is two guys that had been best friends, fighting over a girl and that's not a storyline that I find particularly appealing. However, it leads to accusations of......more
This book is classic science fiction from the 1970s when men were portrayed as egomaniacs and women were just trying to keep from getting killed. This is a continuation of the previous book "Exiled from Earth" several years later. (I'm thinking 50 years later.) The ship was headed for Alpha Centauri......more
Quando il pianeta Terra diventa sovrappopolato e la pace raggiunta è sempre più precaria, gli scienziati genetisti, gli unici che attraverso il proprio lavoro avrebbero potuto incrinare questa condizione, vengono esiliati su un'astronave diretta verso Proxima Centauri. Il viaggio, che dura da cinquan......more
Pretty good sci-fi/suspense for 1972. Bova's writing isn't even particularly sexist in this one (other than the use of the word "girl" to refer to women and the lack of female characters in power positions - frankly not much different from a lot of modern sci-fi by male authors). It's pretty laughab......more
Enjoyed this more than the first book. This book has much more of a sci-fi plot. Particularly interested in the dynamics of the old first generation vs the young second generation and how so many people are in cryosleep. Also the challenge of inheriting a generation ship, as the second generation. A......more
“An armchair voyage, comfortably craftsmanlike.” Kirkus Reviews