The Rock Rats, Ben Bova
The Rock Rats, Ben Bova
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The Rock Rats

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Amanda Karr, Ira Claffey

Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2005


Synopsis

Book Two in the Asteroid Wars-continuing the saga of the struggle for the wealth of the Solar System
Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her-for Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho-and, most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs's wife. Before it ends, many will die-and many will achieve more than they ever dreamed was possible.

About Ben Bova

Ben Bova (1932-2020) was the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including Able One, Transhuman, Orion, the Star Quest Trilogy, and the Grand Tour novels, including Titan, winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. His many honors include the Isaac Asimov Memorial Award in 1996, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award “for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature” in 2008.Dr. Bova was 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. His writings predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), electronic book publishing, and much more.In addition to his literary achievements, Bova worked for Project Vanguard, America’s first artificial satellite program, and for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, the company that created the heat shields for Apollo 11, helping the NASA astronauts land on the moon. He also taught science fiction at Harvard University and at New York City’s Hayden Planetarium and worked with such filmmakers as George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry.

About Amanda Karr

Amanda Karr is an award-winning actress and director. In addition to television appearances on The Guardian and Days of Our Lives, Amanda has played Zelda Fitzgerald in the critically acclaimed musical Tender. On audio, she can be heard as the voice of Ender's cyber-friend, Jane, and as Pancho Lane in Ben Bova's Planet series.

About Ira Claffey

Ira Claffey has narrated or co-narrated numerous audio titles from Macmillan Audio.  His work includes Rock Rats,and several tiles in the American Presidents Series: Thomas Jefferson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Quincy Adams, Grover Cleveland, James Madison, and Theodore Roosevelt.  Of Claffey’s narration of Theodore Roosevelt, AudioFile magazine has said, “Ira Claffey's passionate but cultivated voice is the perfect medium in which to join two men of refinement.”


Reviews

Goodreads review by AndrewP on March 09, 2018

The second book in the Asteroid Wars subset continues the story of the human race moving out to exploit the resources of the asteroid belt. The two main corporations, Astro and Humphreys are still fighting for control with the prospectors and miners (the rock rats) caught in the middle. Things event......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on October 11, 2016

Would someone put Humphries out of my misery and out of Amanda's misery, too? But don't let her get back together with Lars. She does better without a guy. I swear, whenever one of her husbands leaves the room to scamper off on one of their business trips or adventures, her personality 180's from lo......more

Goodreads review by Emanuel on December 17, 2014

This is not a solid scifi-work. Just look at the cast. All the relevant women are Venuses and the men are ruggedly handsome. The Venuses and the ruggedly handsomes have fantastic sex. Venuses ask "but why?", and ruggedly handsomes tell us what we already figured out. That is Bova's entire repertoire......more

Goodreads review by Tommi on January 05, 2022

Tämä oli se kirja miksi alunperin aloitin lukemaan/kuuntelemaan Ben Bovan grand tour-sarjaa, ja aikamoinen pettymys tämä oli. Aihe on mielenkiintoinen, mutta se vesitetään surkeilla henkilöhahmoilla ja turhauttavalla "avaruuspiratismi"/megakorporaatio-teemalla jossa yksi narsistinen mies päättää kai......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on July 29, 2021

Lars Fuchs and his wife Amanda have left Selene to mine the asteroids - become Rock Rats - to make some money but mostly to keep Amanda away from Martin Humphries, the wealthy space industrialist, who has fixated on having Amanda for himself. To this end Humphries has started a campaign to bankrupt......more


Quotes

“Bova in top form.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Compelling.” —Booklist

“Hard-charging. . . . Ambitiously juggling elements of space opera, western, and Sophoclean drama, Bova keeps the pages turning.” —Publishers Weekly