Автор - Ben Bova
Exiled from Earth
Автор: Ben BovaЖанр: Иностранная литература
Computer engineer Lou Christopher’s life falls apart when the World Government decrees that the project he is working on is too dangerous to continue. Thus, he and thousands of other scientists and their families are sentenced to permanent exile from Earth on a space station. But Lou and several others decide to escape—by converting the space station into a starship setting off for the interstellar journey.
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Flight of Exiles
Автор: Ben BovaЖанр: Иностранная литература
A group of scientists and other space travellers face life and death decisions after their spacecraft is damaged by fire.
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Gremlins, Go Home!
Автор: Ben BovaЖанр: Иностранная литература
Suppose that elves, gremlins, and leprechauns are really tiny aliens marooned on Earth for hundreds of years. They want to go home, and human technology finally can make it possible—if they can get aboard NASA’s Mars rocket and hijack it! Pity the poor human who has to help them with the big heist…
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I condannati di Messina
Автор: Ben BovaЖанр: Иностранная литература
Farà piacere ai nostri lettori siciliani sapere che in un futuro più o meno lontano Messina è destinata a diventare sede del supergoverno mondiale. La città, certo, non sarà più la stessa. Torri e palazzi fantascientifici domineranno, lo stretto; uomini dotati d’immenso potere e carichi d’immense responsabilità guarderanno pensosi verso la Calabria; e celebri scienziati di tutto il mondo si ritroveranno, sbigottiti, a Messina, trasportati qui con le buone e con le cattive insieme alle loro famiglie. Una gravissima decisione è stata presa al più alto livello: ancora una volta la scienza sta per mettere in pericolo mortale non solo la società ma l’umanità stessa. E la scienza deve essere messa in condizioni di non nuocere. L’ordine spietato (o pietoso?), necessario (o criminale?) partirà da Messina.
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Orion
Автор: Ben BovaЖанр: Иностранная литература
The exciting beginning of Bova’s popular “Orion” saga, this is the story of John O’Ryan, a man who awakens one day to discover that he is the leader of a race of beings so far beyond humanity that they are almost gods. And, like a god he is locked in an endless struggle with an enemy whose powers are so far beyond the merely human that they seem demonic. Their eternal battle spans time itself.
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Orion Among the Stars
Автор: Ben BovaЖанр: Иностранная литература
More than human and less that a god, John O’Ryan is Orion, made by the Creators who rule outside of time. His purpose is to do their bidding. Now, Orion has becomee a key piece in a cosmic game between two of the Creators—Anya, the goddess he loves, and Aten, the god who toys with his destiny.
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Orion in the Dying Time
Автор: Ben BovaЖанр: Иностранная литература
Orion the Hunter, an eternal being made by the Creators to battle their greatest enemy, and Anya, a Creator who has abandoned her power to accompany him, come closer than ever to understanding and defeating their foe.
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Powrót na Marsa
Автор: Ben BovaЖанр: Иностранная литература
Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w sześć lat po „Marsie”. Politycy, zobligowani swoimi obietnicami i odkryciem przez pierwszą ekspedycję marsjańską prymitywnych form życia, wyrażają zgodę na kolejną misję. Tym razem koszt wyprawy ma się nie tylko zwrócić, ale i przynieść zyski. To determinuje harmonogram — wśród załogi szerzy się niezdrowe współzawodnictwo, chęć zarobku przesłania rzeczywisty cel — badanie czerwonej planety. Jamie Waterman, półkrwi Nawaho, zostaje dowódcą grupy badawczej i musi stawić czoła partykularnym interesom naukowców oraz spełnić wymagania mecanasów projektu i polityków. Ale najważniejsze dla Jamiego jest dotarcie do niesamowitych obioektów, które odkrył na ścianie marsjańskiego kanionu. Przez sześć lat męczy go pytanie: czy to był miraż, czy budowle skonstruowane przez inteligentnych budowniczych.
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Saturn
Автор: Ben BovaЖанр: Иностранная литература
Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of cushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us: Saturn. Earth groans under the rule of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis after crisis has given authoritarians the upper hand. Freedom and opportunity exist in space, for those with the nerve and skill to run the risks. Now the governments of Earth are encouraging many of their most incorrigible dissidents to join a great ark on a one-way expedition, twice Jupiter’s distance from the Sun, to Saturn, the ringed planet that baffled Galileo and has fascinated astronomers ever since. But humans will be human, on Earth or in the heavens — so amid the idealism permeating Space Habitat Goddard are many individuals with long-term schemes, each awaiting the right moment. And hidden from them is the greatest secret of all, the real purpose of this expedition, known to only a few…
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The Dueling Machine
Автор: Ben BovaЖанр: Иностранная литература
Here are the deadliest warriors in the universe—awesome gladiators caught in the ultimate one-on-one battles of all eternity. These explosive tales of future combat are collected here for the first time—featuring today’s acclaimed masters of science fiction.
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The Hittite
Автор: Ben BovaЖанр: Иностранная литература
Lukka, a Hittite warrior, returns to the Hittite capital city to find it engulfed in civil war, his father murdered, and his wife and two young sons taken away by slavers. Along with a small cadre of soldiers under his command, Lukka launches an epic search for his family, which leads him to the gates of Troy as it is beseiged by the army of Agamemnon. Bova then proceeds to an original retelling of the final stages of the legendary Trojan War. In this account, Lukka serves as a literary mirror, revealing the personalities of some well-known characters, with a few surprising results. Odysseus, predictably, is practical, crafty, and a natural survivor in treacherous waters. Achilles is a born killer, but he is shown as short and ugly, and his death is decidedly unheroic. Helen is, of course, the babe of all babes, but she is also petty and whiny.
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The Multiple Man
Автор: Ben BovaЖанр: Иностранная литература
The dynamic new President of the United States, James J. Halliday, seems determined to singlehandedly turn an embittered nation around from economic, political, and social ruin. No one could be prouder than his devoted press secretary Meric Albano. But is the President accomplishing this monumental task alone? After one of the President’s rare public appearances, a derelict is found dead nearby. A derelict who not only looks like the President, but whose blood, retinas, even fingerprints match those of the man in charge. Is the real President, the man Albano swore loyalty to, still in office? Is this part of a plot to topple American democracy? That’s what Albano has to find out—if he doesn’t, his life, as well as his country, will be destroyed…
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