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Product Identifiers

PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co

ISBN-101250296544

ISBN-139781250296542

eBay Product ID (ePID)12038439864

Product Key Features

Book TitleUranus

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicScience Fiction / Alien Contact, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction

GenreFiction

AuthorBen Bova

Book SeriesOuter Planets Trilogy Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight15.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-276505

ReviewsPraise for Ben Bova "Bova proves himself equal to the task of showing how adversity can temper character in unforeseen ways." -- The New York Times "[Bova'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 Journal

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number1

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisBen Bova, author of Earth , continues his exploration of the future of a human-settled Solar System with the science fiction action adventure Uranus , the first of his Outer Planets trilogy. On a privately financed orbital habitat above the planet Uranus, political idealism conflicts with pragmatic, and illegal, methods of financing. Add a scientist who has funding to launch a probe deep into Uranus's ocean depths to search for signs of life, and you have a three-way struggle for control. Humans can't live on the gas giants, making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has built Haven, a sanctuary above the distant planet 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 reach of the laws of the inner planets Haven could become the center for an interplanetary web of narcotics, prostitution, even hunting human prey. Meanwhile a scientist has gotten funding from the Inner Planets to drop remote probes into the "oceans" of Uranus, in search of life. He brings money and prestige, but he also brings journalists and government oversight to Haven. And they can't have that.

LC Classification NumberPS3552.O84U73 2020