Test of Fire, Ben Bova
Test of Fire, Ben Bova
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Test of Fire

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Dean Sluyter

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/15/2013

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Earth has been devastated by a massive solar flare. Now a small group of survivors fights to rebuild civilization. Cities became ovens, grasslands seas of flame. As the touch of dawn swept westward across the spinning planet, its fiery finger killed everything in its path. Glaciers in Switzerland began to melt; floodwaters poured down on burning Alpine villages. Paris became a torch, then London. North of the Arctic Circle, Laplanders in their summer furs burst into flame as their reindeer collapsed and roasted on the smoking tundra. The line of dawn raced westward across the Atlantic, but as it did, the sun dimmed as quickly as it had flared. The Americas escaped the suns wrath almost.

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 Benjamin on October 22, 2013

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

Goodreads review by Druss on January 13, 2019

I read a lot of Bova a long time ago and decided to return and was not disappointed. Pacy and action packed.......more

Goodreads review by Dale on July 23, 2013

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

Goodreads review by Erik on March 07, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Warwick on August 28, 2020

According to my hand-written reading chart from 1994, I read this in 4&1/2 hours.......more