Uranus, Ben Bova
Uranus, Ben Bova
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Uranus

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/27/2021

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Ben Bova, author of Earth, continues his exploration of the future of a human-settled Solar System with the science fiction action adventure Uranus.On a privately financed orbital habitat above the planet Uranus, political idealism conflicts with pragmatic—and illegal—methods of financing. Add a scientist who has funding to launch a probe deep into Uranus’s ocean depths to search for signs of life, and you have a three-way struggle for control.Humans can’t live on the gas giants, making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has built Haven, a sanctuary above the distant planet Uranus. He invites “the tired, the sick, the poor” of Earth to his orbital retreat where men and women can find spiritual peace and refuge from the world.The billionaire who financed Haven, however, has his own designs: beyond the reach of the laws of the inner planets, Haven could become the center for an interplanetary web of narcotics, prostitution, and even hunting human prey.Meanwhile a scientist has gotten funding from the Inner Planets to drop remote probes into the “oceans” of Uranus, in search of life. He brings money and prestige, but he also brings journalists and government oversight to Haven. And they can’t have that.

About Ben Bova

Ben Bova is a six-time winner of the Hugo Award, a former editor of Analog, former editorial director of Omni, and a past president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Bova is the author of more than one hundred works of science fact and fiction. He lives in Florida.

About Stefan Rudnicki

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

About Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom, CBE, is an English film and stage actress, known for leading roles in plays such as Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day’s Journey into Night, along with nearly sixty films and countless television roles, during a career spanning over six decades. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen’s birthday honors for services to drama.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mohamed

تُمثل رواية "أورانوس" الحالة ما بعد الحروب عامة، وفي حالة الرواية؛ حالة فرنسا بعد الحرب العالمية الثانية، وما جرى فيها من قصف ودمار وخراب لمناطق عديدة، ويتخذ "مارسيل إيميه" من بلدة "ليمون" مركزاً للأحداث والشخصيات والصراعات العديدة بين الايدولوجيات العديدة التي انقسم إليها الشعب، وما بين موافق ومُعا......more

Goodreads review by Wendy

Amazing book that deals with hypocrisy and human nature in the terrible period of France immediately after WWII. (Which is also when it was written.) The subject matter was grim,and yet I found that the quality of the writing and his acute observation of human nature with all its frailties, quirks a......more

Goodreads review by Yigal

a brave story about the time after second world war in a small french city which was faithful to marshal peten regime and suffer from usa bombing. very honest look at the hard situation.......more

Goodreads review by 7res

A very good book about a very dark era in france. Post second war settling of scores between families and former colleagues.......more