Bova, Ben
Summary: Humans can't live on the gas giants, making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has built Haven, a privately financed orbital habitat above 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2020
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2020
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Summary: In the aftermath of a terrible space accident, spaceplane scientist Dan Randolph, who designed the vehicle, realizes that his experiment was sabotaged and must outmaneuver terrorists, the government, and his creditors in order to prove himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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Contents: Introduction -- Sam and the flying Dutchman -- Monster slayer -- Fifteen miles -- Muzhestvo -- Red sky at morning -- Greenhouse chill -- High jump -- Death on Venus -- The man who hated gravity -- Appointment in Sinai -- Sepulcher -- Leviathan -- Afterword: The roads ahead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Assoc. 2004
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Summary: "Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it. A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy's core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2016
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Summary: It is time to start the colonizing the solar system. Ex-astronaut, current space advisor, and all-out trouble shooter for the President, Jake Ross, is determined to make it happen. And what better way to return to America's glory than by returning to the moon and setting up a permanent moon-base which can then serve as the launching pad for Mars and beyond. But as usual, political intrigue and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caezik SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2001
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Summary: Running a galactic ore carrier with his family in the wake of the Asteroid Wars, Victor Zacharius flies their ship into the middle of a military attack and bravely saves his family, only to find himself in the clutches of the seductive Cheena Madagascar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2007