

Mars
Author: Ben Bova
Series: Grand Tour Series #1
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 18 hr 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/21/2008
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Ben Bova
Series: Grand Tour Series #1
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 18 hr 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/21/2008
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.
Emily Janice Card (a.k.a. Emily Rankin) is an actor, writer, and singer. In addition to being a narrator, she has directed numerous audiobooks, including the 2007 Audie and Earphones Award winner Hubris, Legacy of Ashes by Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner, and Them by Nathan McCall. Her own audiobook narration has won her four Earphones Awards.
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.
The discovery of life on Mars! Navajo geologist-astronaut, Jamie Waterman, blasts off to the red planet for a second time as the leader of a privately funded follow up expedition to the earth's first foray to Mars which ended on a literal cliff-hanger. the discovery of pueblo-like cliff dwellings tha......more
This book is a very frustrating read. It is both entertaining and not entertaining at the same time. I have aspects of the book I enjoyed, and aspects of the book I didn't enjoy. I disagreed with so much of the decisions the author made with book...and yet I found it entertaining throughout. The boo......more
Enjoyed going back to Mars and "exploring" it with the various characters. Not quite up to par with the first book but still a fun and riveting read.......more
Return to Mars finishes what Mars started--and I really feel like they might have been better as one book. There was such a huge tantalizing idea dangled in front of us in the first book--not only life on Mars, but intelligent life?--only for a rush to the ending so that we never got to actually get......more
Unlike most books in a series, I actually enjoyed this one a bit more than the first one. It's probably because the scene was set in the first book with all the necessary technological explanations. This book has quite a bit of mars exploration in it, building on the things described in the first bo......more
“Bova re-creates for us much of that first excitement we felt in reading about the possibilities of space flight or, later, witnessing the earliest manned exploration.” Los Angeles Times Book Review
“An intelligent, entertaining story that may also serve as a rallying cry.” Omni
“A sweeping, Michener-style saga of the first expedition to our neighboring planet…[T]he ultimate summer escape.” People
“An exemplary summer read…adventurous, brilliant, over-the-edge characters…a carefully imagined, striking, and spooky portrait of the planet.” Voice Literary Supplement
“Bova’s 1992 novel follows Jamie Waterman—a Navaho geologist—on the first manned mission to Mars. The multinational expedition is wrought with political and personal strife, as well as a mysterious illness that strikes the entire land crew and nearly brings the project to a halt. The earnestness and longing of the lead character comes through in Stefan Rudnicki’s voice as he narrates the story of Waterman’s dogged search for signs of life on the Red Planet. Whether or not there’s life beneath the frozen surface of Mars, Rudnicki’s spellbinding baritone brings all the members of the international crew to life, providing believable accents for Russian, Brazilian, English, Japanese, and Israeli members of the landing team.” AudioFile
“A bulging, impressive, all-you-ever-wanted-to-know, you-are-there Martian odyssey.” Kirkus Reviews
“Bova has done extensive research and his descriptions of Mars and the conditions under which the study is conducted are very plausible. All in all, a satisfying story.” School Library Journal