Peacekeepers, Ben Bova
Peacekeepers, Ben Bova
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Peacekeepers

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2015

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

An exciting SF novel by Hugo Award–winning author Ben BovaIn the next century, the United States and Russia have joined forces to form the International Peacekeeping Force. The IPF is charged with controlling the satellite network and preventing nuclear missile launches. But many factions resent this orbital police force—and attempt to seize control of the satellites … and the IPF itself.

About Ben Bova

Ben Bova (1932-2020) was the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including Able One, Transhuman, Orion, the Star Quest Trilogy, and the Grand Tour novels, including Titan, winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. His many honors include the Isaac Asimov Memorial Award in 1996, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award “for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature” in 2008.Dr. Bova was 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. His writings predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), electronic book publishing, and much more.In addition to his literary achievements, Bova worked for Project Vanguard, America’s first artificial satellite program, and for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, the company that created the heat shields for Apollo 11, helping the NASA astronauts land on the moon. He also taught science fiction at Harvard University and at New York City’s Hayden Planetarium and worked with such filmmakers as George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry.

About Claire Bloom

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.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and a multiaward-winning narrator, named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel on October 11, 2017

Premise is after a nuclear war in the Middle East an international peacekeeping force is established with one mission: stop any nation from invading any other nation. But what happens inside national boundaries is unhindered. The book deals with the ramifications of such a setup. It is laid out more......more

Goodreads review by Shane on January 12, 2015

Was a good book, kept me hooked all the way through......more

Goodreads review by Jane on April 17, 2023

Published in the 1980s but set in the future, this book felt very dated. It started out so slow, with a character I cared nothing about, but I kept listening and eventually there were a few chapters and characters that I cared about. In the best chapter an experienced leader and his inexperienced cr......more

Goodreads review by Eric on December 19, 2021

An interesting look at a situation that would develop a "World Peace" situation. The unchecked aggression of nations with powerful militaries against those of weaker ones could only be curbed by an international police force. This is not that far of a jump to a Police State situation; whom could you......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on December 05, 2017

The problem with writing near-future science fiction is that the underlying premise can easily become obsolete. This is particularly true when dealing with politics. The Peacekeepers was published in 1988, who knew the Soviet Union would be gone in a few short years? To be fair, some projections in......more


Quotes

“[An] action-packed adventure.” Library Journal