Ben Bova
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Description
After Dan Randolph's Astro Corporation loses its experimental space plane on re-entry to the atmosphere, Dan discovers that the plane was destroyed by a terrorist conspiracy headed by "tall, bearded Saudi" Asim al-Bashir, who wishes to sabotage Astro's plans to put satellites in geosynchronous orbit capable of beaming solar energy in microwave form to earth.
2) Mars life
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program. Meanwhile, Carter Carleton, an anthropologist...
3) The return
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
After more than a century of exploring the stars, Keith Stoner returns from being cryogenically frozen and discovers that the world he left does not match the one he left.
4) Power surge
Author
Series
Jake Ross novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Dr. Jake Ross, the science advisor to a newly elected freshman senator, must figure out how Washington really works when his comprehensive energy plan runs afoul of special interests, cynical bureaucrats, and a powerful U.S. senator.
5) Titan
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 12
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Space traveling for an extended time to one of Saturn's moons, the crew of the enormous colony ship Goddard falls prey to long-standing tensions after a first exploration vessel mysteriously fails.
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Our neighboring planets may have the answer to this question. Scientists have already identified ice caps on Mars and what appear to be enormous oceans underneath the ice of Jupiter's moons. The atmosphere on Venus appeared harsh and insupportable of life, composed of a toxic atmosphere and oceans of acid -- until scientists concluded that Earth's atmosphere was eerily similar billions of years ago.
An extraterrestrial colony, in some form, may...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
When an ultra-rich space tourist visits the orbiting International Space Station, NASA expects a $100 million win-win: his visit will bring in much needed funding and publicity. But the tourist venture turns into a scheme of terror. Together with an extremist cosmonaut, the tourist slaughters all the astronauts on board the million-pound ISS—and prepares to crash it into New York City at 17,500 miles an hour, causing more devastation than a hundred...
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 20
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"Award-winning author Ben Bova brings us New Earth, his latest tale of science fiction. The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth. All of the explorers understand that they are essentially on...
9) Death dream
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
A thriller set in the world of virtual reality. In Florida, a company creates an amusement park which gives people the impression they are walking on the moon, swimming under the ocean, or playing major league baseball. But delusion has its downside and in this case it is deadly. By the author of Dream of the Wolf.
11) To save the sun
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Description
After years of stagnation, the Emperor must restart the march of human progress to save the Earth from the sun's explosion.
14) Rescue mode
Author
Pub. Date
℗♭2014.
Description
"The first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it. The ship is too far from Earth to simply turn around and return home. The eight-person crew must ride their crippled ship to Mars while they desperately struggle to survive. On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
This sequel to The Precipice continues the saga of the struggle for the wealth of the solar system. Annotation. Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his proteacute;geacute;, 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...