Transhuman, Ben Bova
Transhuman, Ben Bova
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Transhuman

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/15/2014

Synopsis

A scientific thriller by six-time Hugo Award winner Ben BovaLuke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life: his ten-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When Angela is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and given less than six months to live, Luke wants to try a new enzyme, Mortality Factor 4 (MORF4), that he believes will kill Angela's tumor.However, the hospital bureaucracy won't let him do it because MORF4 has not yet been approved by the FDA. Knowing Angela will die before he can get the treatment approved, Luke abducts her from the hospital with plans to take her to a private research laboratory in Oregon.But Luke is too old and worn-down to flee across the country with his sick granddaughter, especially with the FBI on their trail. So he injects himself with a genetic factor that stimulates his body's production of telomerase, an enzyme that has successfully reversed aging in animal tests.As the chase weaves across the country from one research facility to another, Luke begins to grow physically younger, stronger. He looks and feels the way he did thirty or forty years ago. Yet his lung cancer is not abating; if anything the tumors are growing faster.And Angela is dying.

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 Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and a multiaward-winning narrator, named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.

Reviews

Goodreads review by LeeLee

I've never had hate-sex, but I have hate-read books, and this was one of these. Much like the Twilight and da Vinci code series, I couldn't look away from this book. The plot's promising: a scientist discovers some kind of gene therapy whatever that can reverse or accelerate aging. His 8-year-old gr......more

Goodreads review by Audrey

No, I did not finish this book in three days. I abandoned it after 50 or so pages--not something I do often, but I simply couldn't get past the actions of one of the characters that strained credulity. Add to that a pedestrian writing style and I just wasn't able to justify putting the time in when......more

Goodreads review by Robert

This was something akin to a medical thriller. Just without to much thrill to it. Somewhat of a sci fi book because it was dealing with the future development of gene therapy. So sci fi I will call it. Grandpa abducts his granddaughter to treat her with a new gene therapy to treat her cancer. Being......more

Goodreads review by Benoit

This was quite the disappointment. Look, I know what you're thinking. I agree Ben Bova's a good author. It's not even up for discussion. His reputation precedes him. This is not a good novel, though. Bova's trademark easy-reading style does not even save it. TRANSHUMAN feels like one of these dreade......more

Goodreads review by Fredrick

When Luke Abramson's eight year old granddaughter is dying of an untreatable brain tumor, he whisks her away to try an experimental treatment to stop the cancer. Soon he is being hunted by the FBI, a major biomedical foundation, and the White House, all who want to control his research. Bova does a......more

Quotes

“An exciting and action-packed book from start to finish, this could easily be turned into a movie. Plausible twenty-first-century medical research, the bond between a grandfather and his granddaughter, and political power all serve to make this book a must-read for those who enjoyed The Fugitive. A combination of thriller, adventure, and drama will enthrall.” Booklist (starred review)

“Popular science-fiction writer and social commentator Ben Bova’s meditation on new life-extending technologies is engaging, and Stefan Rudnicki’s deep, rich voice adds resonance to the story.” AudioFile

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