Moonrise, Ben Bova
Moonrise, Ben Bova
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Moonrise

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki; directed by Emily Janice Card

Unabridged: 18 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/08/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

A 21st century U.S. aerospace company has developed the first permanent human settlement on the Moon, made possible by major scientific breakthroughs, particularly in the practical use of nanotechnology (microscopic machines which can build structures on the moon using lunar raw materials as well as correct damage done to the human body by illness and injury). But conflict within the company's founding family and growing protests against the technology from radical environmentalists and religious fundamentalists on Earth put Moonbase in danger of closure. Former astronaut and brilliant visionary Paul Stavenger must prevent the project from falling into the wrong hands as a power struggle leads to murder and the near destruction of Moonbase.

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 Nick on December 04, 2018

So slow that I had to fight not to fall asleep while reading it. Bova is very hit or miss with me. The hits are Mars, Jupiter, and Venus. This one however, was a big swing and a miss.......more

Goodreads review by Nick on March 09, 2011

Moonrise, by Ben Bova, is a favorite of mine because it was the novel that finally convinced me that Hard Science-Fiction could be just as entertaining as the action-packed space opera and military science fiction that I have always loved. In Ben Bova's Grand Tour series, of which this is an early ex......more

Goodreads review by Artur on June 01, 2018

Um bom livro de Hard SF, bem construído nas suas premissas, que não mostra os sinais de envelhecimento da FC clássica. Não é por acaso, Bova foi um dos mais ardentes defensores da Hard SF pura, como romancista e editor da Analog. Alvorada Lunar é o primeiro livro da sua saga Moonbase, sobre o estabe......more

Goodreads review by Kieran on July 22, 2020

At the dawn of the twenty first century, a scientific endeavour might make Masterson Aerospace the most profitable company in history. Nanotechnology will help the company extract resources from the regolith on the Moon. But wars have always been fought over global resources, so why should it be surp......more

Goodreads review by Dave on April 24, 2019

Finally continuing on in The Grand Tour... I didn’t realize that this was part of a “saga” until I searched for it to mark it read, but that is feel of this book - following a family and it’s foibles and achievements on Moon Base. Definitely enjoyed it!......more