The Sunborn, Gregory Benford
The Sunborn, Gregory Benford
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The Sunborn

Author: Gregory Benford

Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir, Richard Gilliland, Susan Hanfield, Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 14 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 02/10/2015

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

The award-winning author of Timescape and Eater returns with a gripping new novel set in the same dynamic future as his wildly popular The Martian Race.Their historic mission to Mars made Julia and Victor the most famous astronauts of all time. Now, decades later, they are ordered by the Consortium to Pluto, where they will rendezvous with another starship led by the brilliant, arrogant Captain Shanna Axelrod. Here, on the frozen ammonia shore of Pluto's methane sea, Shanna has discovered intelligent creatures thriving in the -300┬░ degree temperatures. But even as their findings shift from the amazing to the inconceivable, the two crews must overcome their own intense rivalry to work together, for the most remote reaches of the solar system are filled with unimaginable wonders … and countless forces that will crush all human life.

About Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford is a physicist, educator, and author. He received a BS from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 1971. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. He has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy, NASA, and the White House Council on Space Policy. He is the author of over twenty novels, including In the Ocean of the Night, The Heart of the Comet (with David Brin), Foundation's Fear, Bowl of Heaven (with Larry Niven), Timescape, and The Berlin Project. A two-time winner of the Nebula Award, Benford has also won the John W. Campbell Award, the British Science Fiction Award (BSFA), the Australian Ditmar Award, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature. In 1995 he received the Lord Foundation Award for contributions to science and the public comprehension of it. He has served as scientific consultant to the NHK Network and for Star Trek: The Next Generation.

About Gabrielle de Cuir

Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott Card’s Ender novels, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie Angier’s Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Earphones Award.  She lives in Los Angeles where she also directs theatre and presently has several projects in various stages of development for film.

About Susan Hanfield

Susan Hanfield is an Audie Award–winning narrator who comes from a strong classical theater background and loves bringing deep characterizations to all of her work. She has narrated over twenty books, including Ru Emerson’s six-book Night-Threads series.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards, as well as more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, and been named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on June 27, 2020

In a single word, the review for this book would be: colossal infodump. Gregory Benford is a physicist, and he knows what he is writing about. He is careful to chalk out his imagined worlds in detail, with accurate astronomic references and the correct scientific details regarding fusion drives. Even......more

Goodreads review by Tim on September 24, 2015

_The Sunborn_ by Gregory Benford is an excellent "hard" science fiction novel, set in the year 2044, a future in which humans live in stations orbiting the Earth, on the Moon, and have had for around two decades a scientific research station on Mars. Though the only ones who live on Mars are scienti......more

Goodreads review by Nicatel on March 09, 2020

E' il seguito del romanzo "Obiettivo Marte" (pubblicato su Urania Jumbo pochi mesi fa) ma sembra quasi scritto da un'altra persona. Premessa: non c'era alcun bisogno di un seguito, perché il primo romanzo era ampiamente autoconclusivo. Detto ciò, se "Obiettivo Marte" (del 1999) racconta la conquista......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on August 22, 2018

Fun science issues, but a little too thin on plot and characters for my tastes.......more

Goodreads review by Moreno on January 07, 2022

Oltre Plutone, seguito di Obiettivo Marte, è un romanzo di fantascienza, scritto da Gregory Benford. La storia riprende le avventure di Julia e Viktor, i due astronauti di Obiettivo Marte, che sta volta si troveranno ad affrontare un viaggio nelle più gelide e remote regioni del sistema solare, per s......more

Quotes

“Benford is a scientist who writes with verve and insight not only about black holes and cosmic strings but about human desires and fears.” New York Times Book Review

“A novel about the discovery of anaerobic life on Mars? Trust physics professor and Nebula Award winner Benford to pull it off.” Library Journal

“Working from a thrilling premise and with original, speculative science, Benford, a premier practitioner of hard SF, is in top form.” Booklist

“Benford has always been fascinated by the possibilities inherent in extraterrestrial life, and he takes advantage of his own scientific specialty, plasma physics, to create some extraordinary creatures.” Publishers Weekly

“Benford—here, as always, at his best when portraying scientists discussing ideas and hammering out hypotheses—offers up some absorbing scientific speculations.” Kirkus Reviews

“Gabrielle de Cuir opens the narrative with the voices of astronauts Julia, an Australian, and her husband, Victor…[and] succeeds beautifully in keeping both accents distinct and accurate and in giving the characters added dimension. Stefan Rudnicki’s rumbling tones seem to convey the majesty and expanse of deep space, which Richard Gilliland echoes with his own low timbre. Susan Hanfield rounds out the cast with a clipped, authoritative voice for Captain Axelrod…This stellar ensemble…makes the action sequences positively shine.” AudioFile

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