ben bova

Mercury Ben Bova Tor, May 2005, $24.95, 320 pp. ISBN: 0765304120 Industrialist Saito Yamagata died from cancer, but his body was frozen, eventually nanotechnology provided a remedy, and cured him; he has a second chance at life and plans to live it to the fullest. He plans to provide...

His writing isn't Grand Master level but I enjoy his stories. The Asteriod Wars trilogy was pretty bad, it seemed like he kinda phoned it in. I've heard other people say they didn't like Saturn, but I did. I got into him because of the Exiles Trilogy, which was good juvie sci-fi.

If you are familiar with Bova, what do you like/dislike about his writing, subject matter ect?

Anybody read anything by this author? I just finished Venus by him and enjoyed it. This book is one in a series he is doing on various planets in our solar system. I just started Jupiter and it seems he is following a standard formula for this series of books; central character with issues...

Do people remember it? It is about a group of sciencists who are exiled from earth after a great scientific discovery. Rather then live their live in an orbital station, they set out to travel to the nearest star system. The first book was my favorite as is layed out so much. The second book...

The first manned mission to Mars was always going to be difficult. Hostile conditions, bickering and self doubt amongst the mission team and the also rans. Then there is all the politics at home. All this has to be faced by Jamie Madison, half-breed Navaho indian and expeditions last minute...