Sam Gunn Jr., Ben Bova
Sam Gunn Jr., Ben Bova
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Sam Gunn Jr.

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/07/2022

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

The final completed novel by Ben BovaIntergalactic explorer, venture capitalist, and Casanova Sam Gunn may be gone, but his legacy lives on in his son, Sam Gunn Jr.In his first-ever adventure, Sam Gunn Jr. sets off to fulfill his father’s left-behind mission of interplanetary enterprising. He soon learns his father’s shoes are tough to fill, but he is up for the task. Junior takes a journey through the stars, falling in love with beautiful women and leaving his unique mark everywhere he ventures. Soon, however, this trip through the universe takes a dangerous turn when Junior lands on Saturn and learns about a recent scientific discovery that will change everything, possibly forever.Will he be able to save the universe and live up to his father’s name? Take an unforgettable ride through space in master sci-fi author Ben Bova’s exciting novel!

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 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark

We begin this one with a shocking revelation in the first sentence: Sam Gunn, that entrepreneurial maverick of many a Ben Bova story, the space industrialist who happens to be in the right place at the right time a lot, is dead. If you have read the many short stories or The Sam Gunn Omnibus (2007),......more

Goodreads review by Jefferson

Billed as "The last complete novel by Ben Bova", one would think that the novel on question would speak to the legacy of the author, to frame the authors works and themes and perhaps the influence said author has had on his successors. That certainly seems to be what Sam Gunn Jr. attempts to do, but......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

lly published in Looking For a Good Book. Rated 2.5 of 5 I'm pretty sure I've never read any Ben Bova before this, unless I've read a short story in an anthology sometime back in the 1970's or so. I'm not exactly sure why this is other than the simple fact that there's too many books and too little t......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

I haven't read Bova in decades, and after he died and I found out this book was getting published, I thought why not? So I read it and remembered why not. For many people this will be a rollicking yarn of a space story, but for me it was just a sour reminder of the sexism, racism and other isms prac......more

Goodreads review by RoriRorison

Sam Gunn Jr. is an old-school Sci-Fi novel that takes the ideals of the ‘Wild West’ and ‘Frontier Culture’ to Outer Space and the future development of the Solar System.   This is the first Sci-Fi novel that I have ever read, so I found the first few chapters engaging enough to keep me entertained. H......more

Quotes

“No one has done more to keep the dream of space alive in science fiction than Ben Bova.” Wall Street Journal

“A riveting ride through the early years of interplanetary settlement, full of surprises and impossible to put down. Loved it.” Jack McDevitt, award-winning science fiction author

“Sam Gunn Jr. is a romp, a lovingly written, entertaining gem of an SF novel that takes the old ideals of a capitalist Space Race culture, builds them big, and then builds them bigger.” SFFWorld.com

Awards

  • An i09 Pick
  • Locus Magazine Pick
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