Survival, Ben Bova
Survival, Ben Bova
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Survival

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/26/2017

Synopsis

When a human team is sent to scout a few hundred light-years in front of the death wave, it encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences.These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons and have survived earlier “death waves,” gamma-ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm them, and utterly uninterested in helping to save other civilizations, whether organic or machine.But now that the humans have discovered them, they refuse to allow them to leave their planet, reasoning that other humans will inevitably follow if they learn of their existence.

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Graff on June 25, 2021

3.5 Stars I now understand what the editor to Ben Bova meant when he said that each book is self-contained. I've read three books from him, and each book is within the universe, but all are tangentially aware and connected to each other. The same universe and its rules...but you could probably read th......more

Goodreads review by Kadin on January 27, 2025

As is the case with the other Ben Bova books I've read, I can make the same complaints: a romance emerging from nowhere, the main characters of each novel basically being the same person, and a somewhat contrived ending. But at the end of the day, Bova's sci-fi is generally easy and entertaining to......more

Goodreads review by Richard on October 08, 2018

Survival is the fourth book in Ben Bova's Star Quest "trilogy" and it is the best book of the series. I know this because, on our daily walk, I couldn't wait to tell my wife all about the book I was currently reading ;-) The Star Quest series starts out with humans learning from another species that......more

Goodreads review by More Books Than Time on January 30, 2018

Please see my full review here: [URL not allowed] Survival is pretty good, but it felt as though Bova wrote it in a hurry. The denouement is extremely unconvincing. The best thing about Ben Bova's Survival is it reminded me of author Jack McDevitt, who created a similar galactic......more

Goodreads review by Leigh on May 17, 2020

I picked this book up thinking it was part of the author's Grand Tour series, in which the author creates a self-consistent near future hard-sf setting but each of the novels can be read independently, much the way Robert A. Heinlein did with his Future History. Instead, I discover that this is the......more

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