Return to Mars, Ben Bova
Return to Mars, Ben Bova
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Return to Mars

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 16 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/22/2008

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Six years after the first manned Martian expedition, a second has been announced one motivated purely by its profitable potential and halfNavajo, halfAnglo geologist Jamie Waterman's conflicted soul is beckoning him back to the eerie, unforgiving planet. As commander of the new exploratory team, he will have to contend with a bitter and destructive rivalry, a disturbing new emotional attraction, and deadly, incomprehensible "accidents" that appear to be sabotage, all of which could doom the mission to failure. But there is much more at stake than Waterman's personal redemption and the safety of his crew. For there are still great secrets to be uncovered on this cruel and enigmatic world not the least being something he glimpsed in the far distance during his first Martian excursion: an improbable structure perched high in the planet's carmine cliffs; a dwelling that only an intelligent being could have built.

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 Paul on January 28, 2025

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

Goodreads review by Jonathan on January 06, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Susan on August 24, 2022

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

Goodreads review by JP on June 18, 2019

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

Goodreads review by AndrewP on December 26, 2011

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

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