Ben Bova

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Ben Bovan moderni scifi-klassikko avaa kiehtovan näkymän Kuun asuttamiseen. Kirja on yhtaikaa seikkailukertomus ja juonittelua täynnä oleva ihmissuhdetrilleri. Entisen astronautin Paul Stavengerin elinikäisenä unelmana on omavarainen ja Maasta riippumaton avaruustukikohta. Hän joutuu käyttämään kaikki keinot toteuttaakseen unelmansa, jonka tiellä riittää esteitä loputtomiin.

Laura Katajan suomentama romaani pohtii ihmiskunnan mahdollisuuksia selvitä itse aiheuttamistaan ongelmista. Se kertoo vallasta ja valtaa tavoittelevan ihmisen raadollisuudesta. Kirja on myös ylistys ihmisen mielikuvitukselle, jonka hedelmistä lukija voi nauttia kirjan jokaisella sivulla.

"Kuunnousussa on kelpo ropaus amerikkalaista rajaseudun romantiikkaa... Edistyksen ja konservatismin hännänvedon suhteen teos ei ole vanhentunut." – Helsingin Sanomat

ISBN 978952700497
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Tales of the Grand Tour

In novels like Mars and Moonbase, and Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, as well as Privateers, The Precipice, and The Rock Rats, Ben Bova has been telling the stories of the wars and rivalries, the outsize individuals, public crusades, and private passions that will drive us as we expand into the Solar System and make use of its vast resources. And throughout, Bova has shown our cosmic neighborhood as we know it to be, giving us a sense of Venus and Jupiter and the Asteroid Belt and Mars that's as up-to-date as the latest observations. For the last two decades have been a golden age of near-Earth astronomy and observation, and in his novels Bova has made dramatic use of our newest knowledge.

But during that time Bova has also written short fiction about some of the same events and characters---Sam Gunn, Martin Humphries, Klaus Fuchs, Dan Randolph, the Asteroid Wars. Now, in Tales of the Grand Tour, those stories are collected in book form for the first time, creating a volume that is a landmark of modern SF.

Series: The Grand Tour
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Tor Books; 1 edition (January 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0765307227
ISBN-13: 978-0765307224
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Voyagers 

Ex-astronaut turned physicist Keith Stoner knows the signals picked up at his space station are not random.
The message is heading straight for Earth, and Stoner will do anything to be the first man to confront the enigma,
even if he loses his only love.

Series: Voyagers
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Tor Books; Reprint edition (August 15, 1989)
ISBN-10: 0812500768
ISBN-13: 978-0812500769
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Venus 

It is the most desolate place in the universe. With a surface blasted by temperatures hotter than any oven and an atmosphere heavy with sulphur, months from Earth by even the fastest spacecraft, Venus remains almost unknown even after a century of space travel. But Alex Humphries, son of ruthless space tycoon Martin Humphries, disappeared along with his ship Phosphoros into Venus' infernal atmosphere, and now Humphries has offered ten billion dollars to anyone who can bring his son's body home. Two ships are soon racing against each other to Venus. But when they enter the poisonous hurricane winds of the unknown planet they find something so surprising, so unexepected, that it will change the whole course of space exploration.

Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: New English Library Ltd; New edition edition (July 20, 2000)
ISBN-10: 0340728477
ISBN-13: 978-0340728475
Kunto: K2 (tyydyttävä)

Brothers

Some see it as the greatest scientific breakthrough in the history of medical research. Others as a blasphemous attempt to play God. Researchers have pioneered an amazing genetic technique that can regenerate functioning organs inside the human body. 

The medical implications are staggering: Could humankind become immortal? In a worldwide media spotlight, an unprecedented "science court" has been convened in Washington, D.C. to hear the evidence and decide whether or not the experiments should be allowed to continue. On opposite sides of the courtroom stand two brothers: Dr. Arthur Marshak, brilliant director of Grenford Laboratory, who sees his work in organ regeneration as the crowning achievement of his career, a chance at the Nobel Prize, and a momentous gift to humanity, and Dr. Jesse Marshak, a physician, humanitarian, and idealist who sees the imperfect technique as unethical at best, elitist by implication, and dangerous at worse. And standing between them is Julia Marshak, a remarkable, beautiful woman who broke one brother's heart and married the other. As angry factions clash in the D.C. streets and science finds itself on trial in a media frenzy of greed, ambition, and lust, Arthur and Jessie must somehow bridge the gap that divides them . . . on an issue that could mean nothing less than life or death for million

Paperback : 512 pages
ISBN-10 : 0450613356
ISBN-13 : 978-0450613357
Product Dimensions : 4.37 x 7.05 x 1.54 inches
Publisher : NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY LTD; New Ed Edition (January 1, 1995)
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