Besides being born (that is an ordeal, no less an ordeal because you forget it) the worst thing to be gone through is to be a new boy in a small Southern town.
Graed Garroway's empire on Earth was toppling, smashed by the flaming vengeance of Dirk Morris who struck from nowhere with blinding speed and true justice.
Being trapped in the steaming h-l of Venus is no excuse for forgetting one's manners-but anyone abducted, marooned, tricked, kept from tea might well crack under the strain!
Two men had died before Syme Rector's guns to give him the key to the ancient city of Kal-Jmar-a city of untold wealth, and of robots that made desires instant commands.
More feared than the deadly green snakes, the hideous red beetles of that outpost of Earth Empire, was the winged dragon-queen of Jupiter and her white Legions of Doom.
The Sea is ugly and monotonous, with only four or five faces, and all of them coarse, but mankind has just decided to deny this ugliness for subconscious reasons.
In this arid, desolate world, Kine of the Wolf Clan is the water-bearer, serving his people who cling to survival in the uppermost levels of the ancient fortress.
Mars Life is an exciting, action-packed addition to the space opera series of Planet novels from the award-winning author Ben BovaJamie 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.
Cal, Letty, Tony, Opi, and Sasha were thrust together when they were kidnapped by the Molethian civilization and forced to become a fighter crew to battle against The Horde, the most vicious, predatory enemy in all the Milky Way galaxy.
"e;Solid action-adventure/ politicking/consciousness-raising from a veteran pro"e; features a rebel billionaire rescuing earth from ecological disaster (Kirkus Reviews).
Cal, Letty, Tony, Opi, and Sasha were kidnapped by the Molethian civilization and trained to become a fighter crew to battle against The Horde, the most dangerous enemy in all the Milky Way galaxy.
In Ian McDonald's Luna: New Moon, the scions of a falling house must navigate a world of corporate warfare to maintain their family's status in the Moon's vicious political atmosphere.
Hugo Award-winning editor, author, scientist, and journalist, Ben Bova is a modern master of near-future science fiction and a passionate advocate of manned space exploration.
