The Kinsman Saga, Ben Bova
The Kinsman Saga, Ben Bova
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The Kinsman Saga

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 19 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/15/2013

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Hero or killer? In a startling future thats coming closer every year, Chet Kinsman is an astronaut ace who has done everything one can in spaceincluding commit the first murder. Its a secret he can never escape, not even on the moon, where hes head of the first US lunar colony. A series of shocking yet strangely inevitable circumstances will force Kinsman to confront his hidden past and decide Earths destiny. In a desperate countdown to nuclear annihilation, Kinsman will struggle against a deadly dilemma: if he rescues the world, he risks destroying himself.

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 Ira

Check out my full, spoiler free, video review HERE. The first half of this collection is all backstory, the second half gets to the conflict that takes place on the moon. This novel follows Chet Kinsman as he goes from Amish/elite to moon lord. Bova predictions are very close to reality as he envisi......more

Goodreads review by Megan

This is a reread, and one that took me an ungodly long amount of time. I tend to put my rereads up in the bathroom, and get through them that way, but this time, I kept getting distracted by the graphic novels my husband had up there as well. I just wasn't that into it. Of the two Ben Bova Cold War......more

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