

Test of Fire
Author: Ben Bova
Narrator: Dean Sluyter
Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 05/15/2013
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Ben Bova
Narrator: Dean Sluyter
Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 05/15/2013
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
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.
A bit dated for my tastes, and although I typically enjoy a good science fiction thriller from the early to mid-twentieth century, many tend to hold up better to the test of time than this one. Otherwise, the story was engaging albeit simplistic. Fun to read, not terribly special.......more
I read a lot of Bova a long time ago and decided to return and was not disappointed. Pacy and action packed.......more
A Review of the Audiobook Read by Dean Sluyter Duration: 10 hours, 46 minutes Published by Blackstone Audio in 2013 Sci-fi legend Ben Bova’s 1982 book Test of Fire is a look at a near-future Earth struck by a giant solar flare that literally destroys all life in Europe, Asia and Africa because t......more
The story didn't follow the character(s) I thought it would. The story jumped past the story I expected or wanted to read.......more