New Frontiers, Ben Bova
New Frontiers, Ben Bova
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New Frontiers
A Collection of Tales about the Past, the Present, and the Future

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki, Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Alex Hyde-White

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/22/2014

Synopsis

New Frontiers offers fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from Ben Bova, six-time winner of the Hugo Award.Frontiers can be found in all directions—frontiers of time and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outer limits of the human spirit. This outstanding collection of stories by one of science fiction's premier talents spans the length and breadth of history and the universe while exploring thought-provoking new ideas and dilemmas.From the Baghdad of The Arabian Nights to a vast interstellar empire thousands of years in the future, from the Vatican to a one-man vessel drifting in the vast emptiness of the asteroid belt, from virtual reality duels to the subtle intricacies of time travel and a golf tournament on the moon, here are tales of scoundrels and heroes, scientists and explorers, aliens and artificial intelligences, and even a young Albert Einstein. Each of them stands at the border of a new frontier and must venture out into unexplored territory—thanks to the limitless imagination of Ben Bova.

About Ben Bova

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.

About Stefan Rudnicki

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.

About Paul Boehmer

J. Paul Boehmer is an American actor best known for his numerous appearances in the Star Trek universe. Hkis audiobook narrations have garnered nine AudioFile Earphones Awards and two prestigious Audie Awards for Best Narration, besides being a finalist for the Audie Award in 2012 and 2015. Between narrations, he is active in regional theaters across the country. His television appearances include guest spots on Nip/Tuck and Numb3rs.

About Gabrielle de Cuir

Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her “velvet touch” as an actor’s director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost producer for bestselling authors and celebrities.

About Alex Hyde-White

Alex Hyde-White is an actor and a producer of two films and hundreds of audiobooks thru his label Punch Audio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by H (no longer expecting notifications) Balikov

Ben Bova wrote speculative fiction, science fiction, hard science articles and historical fiction. He wrote his stories for many magazines and was editor of Analog Science Fact & Fiction and Omni magazine. He won several Hugo awards (science fiction). New Frontiers is a collection of shorter stories......more

Goodreads review by Tim

Competent. Totally unmemorable. Bova is clearly an author who could take an idea and have you a perfectly serviceable, competently crafted short story in a day or two. Unfortunately these come across as if he did exactly that. I appreciate that a short story must quickly place us in scene, present......more

Goodreads review by Melissa

I remember reading stories or books by Bova when I was in my teens/twenties and couldn't believe this was a fairly new book (2014) but then I looked him up and he is 87 years old so certainly was publishing when I was a teenager. "In Trust" was a bit harsh on Catholics but the premise that being fro......more

Goodreads review by William

Meh. The stories are fine but not all that well written. I had high hopes because of all the awards but the whole time I was thinking "Kim Stanley Robinson has done all this but better."......more

Goodreads review by John Everard Griffith

When I am short on time and want to get back to my first love in reading I turn to short stories. I have not read a lot of Ben Bova and these stories did not draw me into reading more of his writing. But I did enjoyed the stories. They are a quick read. The appreciated the diversity because I tend t......more

Quotes

“This strong collection by SFWA Grand Master Bova achieves an unusually satisfying fusion of varied settings with a consistent humane vision…Bova melds typical otherworldly locales with the resonance of traditional human themes.” Publishers Weekly

“It hardly needs proving that Bova is as effective with shorter fiction as he is with novels. The fourteen stories here range widely in subject, from virtual reality to asteroid mining to golf courses on the moon…Altogether, a whole tray full of treats.” Booklist

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