Synopses & Reviews
When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is led by indomitable Texan Pancho Lane, Humphries Space Systems by the rich and ruthless Martin Humphries, and their fight is over nothing less than resources of the Asteroid Belt itself. As fighting escalates, the lines between commerce and politics, boardroom and bedroom, blur--and the keys to victory will include physics, nanotechnology, and cold hard cash.
As they fight it out, the lives of thousands of innocents hang in the balance, including the rock rats who make their living off the asteroids, and the inhabitants of Selene City on Earth's moon. As if matters weren't complicated enough, the shadowy Yamagata corporation sets its sights on taking advantage of other people's quarrels, and space pirate Lars Fuchs decides it's time to make good on his own personal vendetta.
It's a breakneck finale that can end only in earth's salvation--or the annihilation of all that humankind has ever accomplished in space.
Review
"Another adventurous escapade... vetran pro Bova knows his space-rivets from his astro-bolts, and nobody will be disappointed."
--Kirkus Reviews on The Silent War
"The concluding volume of the Asteroid Wars is vintage Bova, with intrigues, hardware, and action all applied lavishly to a fast moving story."
--Booklist on The Silent War
"...full of ingenious action, capably handled... Bova maintains suspense."
--Paul Di Filippo of SciFi.com on The Silent War
"An entertaining tale of survival and suspense."
--The Washington Times on The Precipice
"Bova gets better and better, combining plausible science with increasingly complex fiction."
--Los Angeles Daily News on The Precipice
"Hard-charging... Ambitiously juggling elements of space opera, western, and Sophoclean drama, Bova keeps the pages turning."
--Publishers Weekly on The Rock Rats
"Another attention-grabbing entry in a series that continues to grow in stature, scope, and complexity. Once again, Bova in top form."
--Kirkus Reviews on The Rock Rats
"A top-notch adventure story...The author's excellence at combining hard science with believable characters and an attention-grabbing plot makes him one of the genre's most accessible and entertaining storytellers."
--Library Journalp0 on Venus
"Bova manages to bring the planet alive as a force of nature indifferent to the struggles, hopes, or presence of the humans who are attempting to make the first successful landing on her surface."
--Bookpage on Venus
"Recalls the work of Heinlein in his Destination Moon mode, or Hal Clement in any number of stories: a day-after-tomorrow tale crafted with near-journalistic purity...It's a difficult, demanding mode to pursue, and not many choose to nowadays. But Bova does it magnificently."
--Paul Di Filippo of SciFi.com on Jupiter
Review
"The concluding volume of the Asteroid Wars is vintage Bova, with intrigues, hardware, and action all applied lavishly to a fast moving story." Booklist
Review
"Another adventurous escapade... vetran pro Bova knows his space-rivets from his astro-bolts, and nobody will be disappointed." Kirkus Reviews
Review
"...full of ingenious action, capably handled... Bova maintains suspense." Paul Di Filippo
Synopsis
When Astro Corporation and Humphries Space Systems go to war over the resources of the Asteroid Belt, what results is a scenario that can end only in Earth's salvation--or with the annihilation of all that humankind has ever accomplished in space.
Synopsis
The thrilling conclusion to the "Asteroid Wars" trilogy that began with The Precipice and The Rock Rats
Synopsis
When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is led by indomitable Texan Pancho Lane, Humphries Space Systems by the rich and ruthless Martin Humphries, and their fight is over nothing less than resources of the Asteroid Belt itself. As fighting escalates, the lines between commerce and politics, boardroom and bedroom, blur--and the keys to victory will include physics, nanotechnology, and cold hard cash.
As they fight it out, the lives of thousands of innocents hang in the balance, including the rock rats who make their living off the asteroids, and the inhabitants of Selene City on Earth's moon. As if matters weren't complicated enough, the shadowy Yamagata corporation sets its sights on taking advantage of other people's quarrels, and space pirate Lars Fuchs decides it's time to make good on his own personal vendetta.
It's a breakneck finale that can end only in earth's salvation--or the annihilation of all that humankind has ever accomplished in space.
About the Author
Born in Philadelphia,
Ben Bova worked as a newspaper reporter, a technical editor for Project Vanguard (the first American satellite program), and a science writer and marketing manager for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, before being appointed editor of
Analog, one of the leading science fiction magazines, in 1971. After leaving
Analog in 1978, he continued his editorial work in science fiction, serving as fiction editor of
Omni for several years and editing a number of anthologies and lines of books, including the "Ben Bova Presents" series for Tor. He has won science fiction's Hugo Award for Best Editor six times.
A published SF author from the late 1950s onward, Bova is one of the field's leading writers of "hard SF," science fiction based on plausible science and engineering. Among his dozens of novels are Millennium, The Kinsman Saga, Colony, Orion, Peacekeepers, Privateers, and the Voyagers series. Much of his recent work, including Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, The Precipice, and The Rock Rats, falls into the continuity he calls "The Grand Tour," a large-scale saga of the near-future exploration and development of our solar system.
A President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, in 2001 Dr. Bova was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He lives in Naples, Florida, with his wife, the well-known literary agent Barbara Bova.