Mars Life, Ben Bova
Mars Life, Ben Bova
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Mars Life

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 12 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/25/2008

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Jamie Waterman has made an important discovery on Mars. A cliff dwelling reveals the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixtyfive million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. But now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program. Meanwhile, Carter Carleton, an anthropologist who was driven from his university post by unproven rape charges, has started to dig up the remains of a Martian village. Science and politics clash on two worlds as Jamie desperately tries to save the Mars program and uncover who the vanished Martians were.

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 Roger

Imagine that you were a scientist exploring Mars and you discovered the ruins of an extinct civilization. Then imagine that you discovered unrefutable fossils. This would cause quite a sensation back on Earth, wouldn't it? Don't count on it if right-wing religionists are in power. Imagine that you p......more

Goodreads review by Jim

I’ve been waiting for this book for a long time! I was left with the shimmering image of pueblo in a Martian cliff in Bova’s Return to Mars in 2000. I wanted to read this ending chapter in Bova’s Mars trilogy for so long that I resorted to e-mailing Dr. Bova to ask him if he was going to finish the......more

Goodreads review by Karen

Boorriinngg. I don't know what happened to this book. I was riveted to Ben Bova's MARS when I first read it, and was so sad when it ended, and then so happy with the sequel, and then I couldn't believe it when I saw this book on the shelf at the library. Gah! It's dull, dull, dull. I've caught wind of......more

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