Space Station Down, Ben Bova
Space Station Down, Ben Bova
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Space Station Down

Author: Ben Bova, Doug Beason

Narrator: Samantha Desz

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/04/2020

Synopsis

When an ultra-rich space tourist visits the orbiting International Space Station, NASA expects a $100 million win-win: his visit will bring in much needed funding and publicity. But the tourist venture turns into a scheme of terror. Together with an extremist cosmonaut, the tourist slaughters all the astronauts on board the million-pound ISS—and prepares to crash it into New York City at 17,500 miles an hour, causing more devastation than a hundred atomic bombs. In doing so, they hope to annihilate the world's financial system.

All that stands between them and their deadly goal is the lone survivor aboard the ISS, Kimberly Hasid-Robinson, a newly divorced astronaut who has barricaded herself in a secure area.

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 JasonA on August 24, 2021

The quote on the cover says "Think Die Hard at 250 miles above the Earth." If you go into this book believing that, you're going to be very disappointed. For this book to be like Die Hard, John McClane would have had to hide in the air duct for the first 2/3 of the movie and drop his gun every time......more

Goodreads review by Gerhard on August 12, 2020

This does exactly what it says on the box: A high-octane (literally rocket fuel) high-concept thriller that opens with a bang and does not let up for the next couple of hundred pages. The chapters are short and punchy, and the story takes a couple of unexpected turns, especially towards the end. Spe......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on January 23, 2022

This was a true nail-biting story! I never knew that this author wrote stories like this, so I will definitely have to read more of his books. The action and danger is very high as are the stakes involved when two terrorists board the ISS (International Space Station). And one lone lady astronaut st......more

Goodreads review by Karen on August 12, 2020

This book put you right on the ISS as we are following Kimberly Hasid-Robinson, who is doing everything she can to thwart a terrorist threat against the earth. This is a fast paced thriller that keeps you hooked until the very end.......more

Goodreads review by Terry on August 17, 2020

I genuinely enjoy Ben Bova and all his many works. I’m not familiar with his co-author this time around (totally on me, I’m looking into him more now). This is a great read. Like one of the reviewers stated it is “made for the big screen” (remember movie theaters? I miss those things). The story is......more

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