

Peacekeepers
Author: Ben Bova
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 02/01/2015
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Ben Bova
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 02/01/2015
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
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.
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.
Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and a multiaward-winning narrator, named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.
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
Was a good book, kept me hooked all the way through......more
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
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
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
“[An] action-packed adventure.” Library Journal