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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-100812579410
ISBN-139780812579413
eBay Product ID (ePID)1958296
Product Key Features
Book TitleJupiter
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicScience Fiction / Space Opera, Science Fiction / Space Exploration
GenreFiction
AuthorBen Bova
Book SeriesThe Grand Tour Ser.
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight7.1 Oz
Item Length6.9 in
Item Width4.2 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsRecalls 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., "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, Scifi.com, "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, Scifi.com
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionReprint,Revised edition
SynopsisGrant Archer only wanted to study astrophysics. But the forces of the "New Morality," the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run 21st-century America, have other plans for him. To his distress, Grant is torn from his young bride and sent to a research station in orbit around Jupiter, to spy on the scientists who work there. Their work may lead to the discovery of higher life forms in the Jovian system-with implications the New Morality doesn't like at all. What Grant's would-be controllers don't know is that his loyalty to science may be greater than his desire for a quiet life. But that loyalty will be tested in a mission as dangerous as any ever undertaken-a mission to the middle reaches of Jupiter's endless atmosphere, a place where hydrogen flows as a liquid, and cyclones larger than planets rage for centuries at a time. What lurks there is more than anyone has counted on...and stranger than anyone could possibly have imagined.
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- 03. Mär. 2016
One of Ben Bova's best sci fi books
This is the type of 'hard' sci fi I like. Characterization is good, both interesting and believable. Not deep, but that suits my preference in sci fi. It's deep enough that the characters avoid being cartoons, soap opera or romance novel. Most of all it takes full advantage of the wonder of its topic: Jupiter and the idea of Jovian life, with nods to moons such as Europa. I would have liked more exploration in my special sci fi interest -- first contact with alien (completely alien, not humanoid, not of human origin even remotely, not even life as we know it) intelligence. Either the book should have continued further (for my taste), or dropped the religious sabotage subplot. Be that as it may, it was good as far as it went.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
