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| the next logical step by ben bova: The Next Logical Step Ben Bova, 2014-05-12 Ordinarily the military least wants to have the others know the final details of their war plans. But, logically, there would be times-- |
| the next logical step by ben bova: The Next Logical Step Ben Bova, 2016-10-01 For thousands of years, military forces around the world have been honing their technological prowess to get a leg up on their enemies. In Ben Bova's disturbing short story The Next Logical Step, master scientists have created what is perhaps the ultimate war machine -- but is the human psyche strong enough to handle the implications of the device? |
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| the next logical step by ben bova: Titan Ben Bova, 2006-02-21 From the six-time Hugo Award–winning author—humanity’s future rests in the hands of team of Earth colonists orbiting Saturn in this science fiction saga. 2095. After long months of travel, the gigantic colony ship Goddard has at last made orbit around Saturn, carrying a population of more than 10,000 dissidents, rebels, extremists, and visionaries seeking a new life. Among Goddard’s missions is the study of Titan, which offers the tantalizing possibility that life may exist amid its windswept islands and chill black seas. When the exploration vessel Titan Alpha mysteriously fails after reaching the moon’s surface, long buried tensions surface among the colonists. Eduoard Urbain, the mission’s chief scientist, is wracked with anxiety and despair as he sees his life’s work unravel. Malcolm Eberly, Goddard’schief administrator, takes ruthless measures to hold onto power as a rash of suspicious incidents threaten to undermine his authority. Holly Lane, the colony’s human-resources director, must confront the station’s powerful leaders to protect the lives of its people. And retired astronaut Manuel Gaeta is forced to risk his life in a last, desperate attempt to salvage the lost probe. Torn by intrigue, sabotage, and an awesome discovery that could threaten human space exploration, a handful of courageous men and women must fight for the survival of their colony, and for the future of humanity. . . . Praise for Titan “Clicks along like a well-oiled machine: smooth, precise and reliable, inching Bova’s grand design forward another notch or two.” —Kirkus Reviews “The solidly hypothesized science enthralls.” —Publishers Weekly |
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| the next logical step by ben bova: The Best of Bova, Volume II Ben Bova, 2016-07-05 VOLUME #2 IN A STERLING COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM LEGENDARY HARD SCIENCE FICTION MASTER BEN BOVA. Selected stories from Bova's amazing career at the center of science fiction and space advocacy. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling Grand Tour science fiction series, a six time Hugo award winner, and past president of the National Space Society. Volume #2 of 3 of the very best of Ben Bova, a grandmaster of science fiction storytelling. These stories span the five decades of Bova's incandescent career. Here are tales of star-faring adventure, peril, and drama. Here are journeys into the mind-bending landscapes of virtual worlds and alternate realities. Here you'll also find stories of humanity's astounding future on Earth, on Mars and in the Solar System beyond—stories that always get the science right. And Bova's gathering of deeply realized, totally human characters are the heroic, brave, tricky, sometimes dastardly engineers, astronauts, corporate magnates, politicians, and scientists who will make these futures possible—and those who often find that the problems of tomorrow are always linked to human values, and human failings, that are as timeless as the stars. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About the award-winning stories and novels of Ben Bova: “Technically accurate and absorbing. . .”—Kirkus “[Bova is] the science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the world.”—Ray Bradbury “A masterful storyteller”—Vector “Gives a good read while turning your eyes to what might be in the not so distant future, just like Clarke and Asimov used to do so well.”—SFX About Mars, Inc., by Ben Bova.: “. . .perfectly enjoyable as an SF book (could Bova write anything that wasn’t enjoyable?), Mars, Inc.has that torn-from-the-headline vibe that’s obviously intended for a larger audience. . . . the bottom line?Mars, Inc. has inspiration, excitement, thrills, romance, a dash of satire—and is a good, fun read . . . .”—Analog “The Hugo winner returns to his most popular subject: the quest for Mars.”—Publishers Weekly “. . . escapist fantasy for rocket scientists and space engineers, those dreaming of these kinds of missions. Yet Bova’s story is rigorously realistic. . . . a fun read showing you do not need car chases or shootouts to deliver a fast-paced and exciting story.”—Daily News of Galveston County |
| the next logical step by ben bova: New Earth Ben Bova, 2013-07-16 We've found another Earthlike planet, but what secrets does it hold? |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Escape Plus Ben Bova, 1984-12-15 No one could move without being followed. No one could speak without being overheard. The almost sentient computer system was everywhere. The prison was billed as escape-proof, and sofar that was true. But Danny Romano was not about to believe it... the jail hadn't been built that could hold him. Danny would escape. Even if he had to permanently change his identity to do it. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection Gardner Dozois, 2002-07-23 The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results: Collected in this anthology are such compelling stories as: On K2 with Kanakaredes by Dan Simmons. A relentlessly paced and absorbing tale set in the near future about three mountain climbers who must scale the face of K2 with some very odd company. The Human Front by Ken MacLeod. In this compassionate coming-of-age tale the details of life are just a bit off from things as we know them-and nothing is as it appears to be. Glacial by Alastair Reynolds. A fascinating discovery on a distant planet leads to mass death and a wrenching mystery as spellbinding as anything in recent short fiction. The twenty-six stories in this collection imaginatively takes us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Eleanor Arnason Chris Beckett Michael Blumlein Michael Cassutt Brenda W. Clough Paul Di Filippo Andy Duncan Carolyn Ives Gilman Jim Grimsley Simon Ings James Patrick Kelly Leigh Kennedy Nancy Kress Ian R. MacLeod Ken MacLeod Paul J. McAuley Maureen F. McHugh Robert Reed Alastair Reynolds Geoff Ryman William Sanders Dan Simmons Allen M. Steele Charles Stross Michael Swanwick Howard Waldrop Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Sense of Wonder Leigh Grossman, 2011-12-20 A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. Doc Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays! |
| the next logical step by ben bova: The Science Fiction Archive #6 H. Beam Piper, Harry Harrison, Murray Leinster, Ben Bova, Poul Anderson, Frank Herbert, 2018-06-27 The sixth powerful Science Fiction Archive! Edited by the strangely enigmatic Rey Bertran, SFA #6 features the following tales: Missing Link, by Frank Herbert The Great Nebraska Sea, by Allan Danzig The Valor of Cappen Varra, by Poul Anderson A Bad Day for Vermin, by Keith Laumer Hall of Mirrors, by Frederic Brown Common Denominator, by John MacDonald Doctor, by Murray Leinster The Next Logical Step, by Ben Bova The Nothing Equation, by Tom Godwin The Last Evolution, by John Campbell A Hitch in Space, by Fritz Leiber On the Fourth Planet, by J.F. Bone Flight From Tomorrow, by H. Beam Piper Card Trick, by Walter Bupp The K-Factor, by Harry Harrison |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Mars Ben Bova, 2010-02-16 Considered one of Ben Bova’s most famous Grand Tour novels: “A gripping, realistic tale of man’s first expedition to the red planet. Don’t miss it” (Terry Brooks, New York Times–bestselling author of The Shannara Chronicles). Jamie Waterman is a young Navaho geologist who is picked for the ground team of the first manned expedition to Mars. He will be joining an international team of astronauts and scientists. But once the crew land on the red planet, they soon discover they must battle not only the alien land on which they have invaded but earthbound bureaucrats as well. When they come face to face with a chasm ten times as deep and large as the Grand Canyon, all twenty-five astronauts must face the most shocking discovery of all . . . “The science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the world.” —Ray Bradbury, author of Farenheit 451 “A splendid book . . . Of his many books, Mars must be the most important.” —Arthur C. Clarke, author of Islands in the Sky |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Escape Plus Ben Bova, 1984 |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Five Golden Rules John Casti, 1996 In Five Golden Rules, John L. Casti serves as curator to a brilliant collection of 20th-century mathematical theories, leading us on a fascinating journey of discovery and insight. Probing the frontiers of modern mathematics, Casti examines the origins of some of the most important findings of this century. This is a tale of mystery and logic, elegance and reason; it is the story of five monumental mathematical breakthroughs and how they shape our lives. All those intrigued by the mathematical process, nonacademics and professionals alike, will find this an enlightening, eye-opening, and entertaining work. High school algebra or geometry - and enthusiasm - are the only prerequisites. From the theorem that provided the impetus for modern computers to the calculations that sent the first men to the Moon, these breakthroughs have transformed our lives. Casti illustrates each theorem with a dazzling array of real-world problems it has helped solve - how to calculate the shape of space, optimize investment returns, even chart the course of the development of organisms. Along the way, we meet the leading thinkers of the day: John von Neumann, L. E. J. Brouwer, Marston Morse, and Alan Turing, among others. And we come to understand the combination of circumstances that led each to such revolutionary discoveries as the Minimax Theorem, which spawned the exciting field of game theory, and the Simplex Method, which underpins the powerful tools of optimization theory. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Fleet of Worlds Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner, 2007-10-16 A brand-new novel set in Niven's Known Space, two hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Lodestone Book One Mark Whiteway, 2010-04-12 Alli-Kar, a white-hole portal from another universe, rains meteoroids onto the surface of the planet Kelanni. But the so-called lodestones behave according to different physical laws, transforming Kelanni's society. With the aid of the fearsome Keltar in their flying cloaks, the Kelanni are being put to forced labor to mine the lodestones. Shann, an orphan with a fiery disposition, witnesses a battle between a Keltar and a stranger bearing a similar flying cloak. She tracks down the stranger, learning of the technology behind the Keltars' power and joining him on a mission to free the slaves and cut off their supply of lodestones. Meanwhile Keris, a Keltar, is sent on a mission to track down the rebels. She is attacked by a flying creature and saved by the enigmatic Chandara. At their Great Tree, she learns that a mysterious Prophet is out to destroy the Kelanni people. Their only hope is a powerful instrument hidden in the distant past. Pursued by Keltar, the party will encounter bizarre creatures, ancient technologies and terrifying dangers. Finally, they must seek to cross a massive storm barrier in order to reach the other side of their world, where a world-shaking revelation awaits. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: 100 Classic Science Fiction Stories: Volume Three Randall Garrett, Dallas Reynolds, H. Beam Piper, Allan Nourse, Lester del Rey, 2013-11-13 100 science fiction stories make up this massive collection. Works and authors include: Four-Day Planet by Henry Beam Piper The Hour of Battle by Robert Sheckley The House from Nowhere by Arthur G. Stangland The Huddlers by William Campbell Gault Human Error by Raymond F. Jones The Hunted Heroes by Robert Silverberg I Like Martian Music by Charles E. Fritch Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon by Richard Sabia I'll Kill You Tomorrow by Helen Huber A Stranger Here Myself by Dallas McCord Reynolds If at First You Don't... by John Brudy Impossible Voyage Home by Floyd L. Wallace In Case of Fire by Gordon Randall Garrett In the Cards by Alan Cogan In the Control Tower by Will Mohler The Orbit of Saturn by Roman Frederick Starzl The Year 2889 by Jules Verne and Michel Verne An Incident on Route 12 by James H. Schmitz Revolution by Poul William Anderson Infinite Intruder by Alan Edward Nourse The Infra-Medians by Sewell Peaslee Wright Inside John Barth by William W. Stuart Insidekick by Jesse Franklin Bone Instant of Decision by Gordon Randall Garrett The Instant of Now by Irving E. Cox, Jr. Irresistible Weapon by Horace Brown Fyfe Islands in the Air by Lowell Howard Morrow The Issahar Artifacts by Jesse Franklin Bone It's a Small Solar System by Allan Howard It's All Yours by Sam Merwin The Jameson Satellite by Neil Ronald Jones Jimsy and the Monsters by Walt Sheldon Join Our Gang? by Sterling E. Lanier Joy Ride by Mark Meadows The Judas Valley by Gerald Vance Junior Achievement by William Lee The Junkmakers by Albert R. Teichner The Jupiter Weapon by Charles Louis Fontenay The K-Factor by Harry Harrison The Keeper by Henry Beam Piper Keep Out by Fredric Brown The Kenzie Report by Mark Clifton The Knights of Arthur by Frederik Pohl Know Thy Neighbor by Elisabeth R. Lewis A Knyght Ther Was by Robert F. Young Larson's Luck by Gerald Vance THE LAST DAYS OF EARTH by GEORGE C. WALLIS The Last Evolution by John Wood Campbell The Last Gentleman by Rory Magill Last Resort by Stephen Bartholomew The Last Straw by William J. Smith The Last Supper by T. D. Hamm Lease to Doomsday by Lee Archer Let'em Breathe Space by Lester del Rey Letter of the Law by Alan Edward Nourse The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster The Machine That Saved The World by William Fitzgerald Jenkins Man Who Hated Mars by Gordon Randall Garrett The Man Who Saw the Future by Edmond Hamilton A Matter of Magnitude by Al Sevcik The Measure of a Man by Randall Garrett The Memory of Mars by Raymond F. Jones 'Mid Pleasures and Palaces by James McKimmey The Mightiest Man by Patrick Fahy Millennium by Everett B. Cole The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison Missing Link by Frank Patrick Herbert The Montezuma Emerald by Rodrigues Ottolengui Mr. President by Stephen Arr Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick The Native Soil by Alan Edward Nourse Navy Day by Harry Harrison Next Logical Step by Benjamin William Bova No Moving Parts by Murray F. Yaco The Nothing Equation by Tom Godwin Old Rambling House by Frank Patrick Herbert One-Shot by James Benjamin Blish Oomphel in the Sky by Henry Beam Piper Operation Haystack by Frank Patrick Herbert Your Money Back by Gordon Randall Garrett An Ounce of Cure by Alan Edward Nourse The Penal Cluster by Ivar Jorgensen Piper in the Woods by Philip K. Dick Planetoid 127 by Edgar Wallace Police Operation by H. Beam Piper Postmark Ganymede by Robert Silverberg Project Mastodon by Clifford Donald Simak Proteus Island by Stanley G. Weinbaum The Quantum Jump by Robert Wicks The Radiant Shell by Paul Ernst The Red Room by H. G. Wells The Risk Profession by Donald Edwin Westlake Scrimshaw by William Fitzgerald Jenkins Second Variety by Philip Kindred Dick Shock Absorber by E.G. von Wald Sjambak by John Holbrook Vance Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas by Raphael Aloysius Lafferty This World Must Die! by Horace Brown Fyfe Toy Shop by Henry Maxwell Dempsey Darkness by H. P. Lovecraft |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Prometheans Ben Bova, 2011-04-01 Down with Pessimists! In a rich mix of fiction and science, fact and speculation, Ben Bova presents the Promethean pioneers whose technologic genius fuels our dreams --- and our future. Discover the exciting adventures of Sam Gunn --- first man to rig a still on the moon; and Chet Kinsman, first to try zero-gee seduction. The man who tamed hurricans and the man whose vision of orbital immortality lost him all he loved on Earth. The day politics, media and bio-engineering met, and the day an assassin took aim on the stars . . . Plus the equally thrilling stories of the real pioneers of space industry and defence; Carl Sagan's quest to find intelligent life in the universe; how wealth and riches fall from the sky; and the potential pleasure of romance in orbit. The next time the headlines belong to anti-science pessimists, remember --- tomorrow belongs to Prometheans, the dreamers who steal fire and tame stars. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Star Peace Ben Bova, 2011-04-01 Star Peace (originally published in 1986) is a look at space warfare defense technology by novelist Ben Bova, the author of more than a hundred works of science fiction and fact. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: The Science Fiction MEGAPACK ® Robert Silverberg, Richard A. Lupoff, Samuel R. Delany, Reginald Bretnor, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Algis Budrys, Fredric Brown, John Gregory Betancourt, Poul Anderson, Randall Garrett, Lester del Rey, Ben Bova, 2011-09-09 Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories (plus a bonus short-short): UNKNOWN THINGS, by Reginald Bretnor CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME, by Samuel R. Delany EXPEDITER, by Mack Reynolds ONE-SHOT, by James Blish SHIPWRECK IN THE SKY, by Eando Binder ZEN, by Jerome Bixby LANCELOT BIGGS COOKS A PIRATE, by Nelson Bond SENTIMENT, INC., by Poul Anderson THE ISSAHAR ARTIFACTS, by J. F. Bone THE NEXT LOGICAL STEP, by Ben Bova YEAR OF THE BIG THAW, by Marion Zimmer Bradley EARTHMEN BEARING GIFTS, by Fredric Brown HAPPY ENDING, by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds LIGHTER THAN YOU THINK, by Nelson Bond RIYA’S FOUNDLING, by Algis Budrys ACCIDENTAL DEATH, by Peter Baily AND ALL THE EARTH A GRAVE, by C. C. MacApp DEAD RINGER, by Lester del Rey THE CRYSTAL CRYPT, by Philip K. Dick THE JUPITER WEAPON, by Charles L. Fontenay THE MAN WHO HATED MARS, by Randall Garrett NAVY DAY, by Harry Harrison THE JUDAS VALLEY, by Robert Silverberg & Randall Garrett NATIVE SON, by T. D. Hamm JUBILEE, by Richard A. Lupoff FINAL CALL, by John Gregory Betancourt And don't forget to check out all the other volumes in the Megapack series! Search on Megapack in the ebook store to see the complete list...covering more science fiction volumes, plus adventure stories, military, fantasy, ghost stories, westerns, and much more! |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Mercury and Prometheans Ben Bova, 2015-12-29 Two complete books, one price--Front cover. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Amazing Stories Volume 185 Les Cole, 2024-03-18 Amazing Stories Volume 185 is a great collection of action short stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here are four short stories by different authors: Trajectory To Taurus by Les Cole, Rogue Psi by James H. Schmitz, The Next Logical Step by Ben Bova, and The Duelling Machine by Ben Bova & Myron R. Lewis. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Analog Science Fact, Science Fiction , 1962 |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Return to Mars Ben Bova, 2010-02-16 The New York Times–bestselling and six-time Hugo Award–winning author’s epic Grand Tour adventure continues. Jamie Waterman is returning to the red planet, this time in charge of an expedition in which he hopes to demonstrate that one can study Martian life not only for the sake of the pursuit but more, that it can be profitable. Waterman also hopes to revisit a part of the canyon where he thought he spied a primitive cliff dwelling during the first Martian mission. But this second voyage to Mars brings trouble right away as Waterman clashes with Dex Trumball, the son of a billionaire who is backing the expedition. Dex wants to turn the planet into a tourist attraction, while Waterman wants to preserve the planet solely for scientific research. As their rivalry heats up—both professionally and personally—Waterman is faced with betrayal and sabotage. But the planet still guards its most closely held secrets . . . discoveries that could change what everyone thought they knew about Mars—and life in space . . . “Bova shines in making science not only comprehensible but entertaining.” —The New York Times Book Review |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Analog Science Fact/science Fiction John Wood Campbell (Jr.), 1962 |
| the next logical step by ben bova: The Golden Age Of Science Fiction Ⅰ - Ⅳ Ethan Cole, 2025-01-07 Please rate and comment positively! Your encouragement is my motivation! Thank you all! ? The Golden Age of Science Fiction is typically recognized as the period from the late 1930s to the 1950s. During this time, science fiction underwent a significant transformation, evolving from its earlier pulp magazine roots into a more sophisticated literary genre. This period is often marked by the rise of prominent science fiction writers and the publication of many of the genre's most influential works. It was characterized by an optimistic vision of the future, exploration of new technologies, and an emphasis on scientific speculation. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies Jonas C.L. Valente, 2021-08-30 In From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies: Technology, Information and Power Jonas C.L. Valente discusses the rise of platforms as key players in different social activities, from economy to culture and politics. These companies have a daily presence in the lives of the majority of the world population, from social interactions to digital payments and transactions. They are gaining a central role in neoliberal capitalism, shaping contemporary sociability. The book shows how these platforms work and identifies the hidden interests behind the commercial strategies that guide the development of services offered to Internet users. It takes the specific cases of Google and Facebook and presents its historical development, illustrating how these companies turned into major players in our times. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections William Contento, 1978 |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Apes and Angels Ben Bova, 2016-11-22 Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in Apes and Angels, the second book of the Star Quest Trilogy which began with Death Wave. 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 vicinity at the speed of light. Every world it touched was wiped clean of all life. But it’s possible to protect a planet from gamma radiation. Earth is safe. Now, guided by the ancient intelligent machines called the Predecessors, men and women from Earth seek out those precious, rare worlds that harbor intelligent species, determined to save them from the doom that is hurtling toward them. The crew of the Odysseus has arrived at Mithra Gamma, the third planet of the star Mithra, to protect the stone-age inhabitants from the Death Wave. But they’ll also have to protect themselves. The Star Quest Trilogy #1 Death Wave #2 Apes and Angels At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Analog Science Fiction/science Fact John Wood Campbell (Jr.), 1990 |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Analog Science Fiction/science Fact John Wood Campbell, 1990 |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Aliens and Alien Societies Stanley Schmidt, 1995 A thoughtful, clear and utterly fascinating reference, this book is absolutely vital to writers who want to put extraterrestrial life-forms in their novels and stories. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: The Warship Neal Asher, 2019-05-02 Neal Asher takes us on a thrilling ride into interstellar politics and impending war, in this second volume of Rise of the Jain. Their nemesis lies in wait . . . Orlandine has destroyed the alien Jain super-soldier by deploying an actual black hole. And now that same weapon hoovers up clouds of lethal Jain technology, swarming within the deadly accretion disc’s event horizon. All seems just as she planned. Yet behind her back, forces incite rebellion on her home world, planning her assassination. Earth Central, humanity’s ruling intelligence, knows Orlandine was tricked into releasing her weapon, and fears the Jain are behind it. The prador king knows this too – and both foes gather fleets of warships to surround the disc. The alien Client is returning to the accretion disc to save the last of her kind, buried on a ship deep within it. She upgrades her vast weapons platform in preparation, and she’ll need it. Her nemesis also waits within the disc’s swirling dusts – and the Jain have committed genocide before. The Warship is set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universe. 'Neal Asher's books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain' – John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War and The Collapsing Empire. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Raising Caine Charles E. Gannon, 2015-09-16 Book Three in the Nebula award nominated and Compton Crook award winning series. Science fiction adventure on a grand scale. Caine Riordan, reluctant diplomatic and military intelligence operative, has just finished playing his part repulsing the Arat Kurs and HkhRkhs joint invasion of Earth. But scant hours after the attackers surrender, the mysterious but potentially helpful Slaasriithi appeal to Caine to shepherd a diplomatic mission on a visit to their very alien worlds. The possible prize: a crucial alliance in a universe where the fledgling Consolidated Terran Republic has very few friends. But Caine and his legation arent the only ones journeying into the unknown reaches of Slaasriithi space. A group of renegade Ktor are following them, intending to destroy humanitys hopes for a quick alliance. And that means finding and killing Caine Riordan. Assuming that the bizarre and dangerous Slaasriithi lifeforms dont do it first. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Trial by Fire: _I seriously enjoyed Trial by Fire. This ones a tidal wave¾cant put it down. An excellent book.Ó ¾Jack McDevitt on the prequel Gannon's whiz-bang second Tales of the Terran Republic interstellar adventure delivers on the promise of the first (Fire with Fire). . . . The charm of Caine's harrowing adventure lies in Gannon's attention to detail, which keeps the layers of political intrigue and military action from getting too dense. The dozens of key characters, multiple theaters of operations, and various alien cultures all receive the appropriate amount of attention. The satisfying resolution is enhanced by the promise of more excitement to come in this fascinating far-future universe.¾Publishers Weekly Starred Review . . . definitely one to appeal to the adventure fans. Riordan is a smart hero, up against enormous obstacles and surrounded by enemies. Author Gannon does a good job of managing action and tension to keep the story moving, and the details of the worlds Riordan visits are interesting in their own right..¾Analog . . . offers the type of hard science-fiction those familiar with the John Campbell era of Analog Science Fiction will remember. Gannon throws his readers into an action-packed adventure. A sequel to Fire With Fire, it is a nonstop tale filled with military science-fiction action. ¾Daily News of Galveston County About Compton Crook award winner for best first novel,Fire with Fire: _Chuck Gannon is one of those marvelous finds¾someone as comfortable with characters as he is with technology, and equally adept at providing those characters with problems to solve. Imaginative, fun, and not afraid to step on the occasional toe or gore the occasional sacred cow, his stories do not disappoint.Ó¾David Weber If we meet strong aliens out there, will we suffer the fate of the Aztecs and Incas, or find the agility to survive? Gannon fizzes with ideas about the dangerous politics of first contact.Ó¾David Brin The plot is intriguing and then some. Well-developed and self-consistent; intelligent readers are going to like it.¾Jerry Pournelle [T]he intersecting plot threads, action and well-conceived science kept those pages turning.¾SF Crowsnest About Starfire series hit, Extremis, coauthored by Charles E. Gannon: _Vivid. . . Battle sequences mingle with thought-provoking exegesis . . .Ó¾Publishers Weekly Its a grand, fun series of battles and campaigns, worthy of anything Dale Brown or Larry Bond ever wrote. ¾Analog About Charles E. Gannon: [A] strong [writer of] . . . military SF. . .[much] action going on in his work, with a lot of physics behind it. There is a real sense of the urgency of war and the sacrifices it demands. ¾Locus |
| the next logical step by ben bova: The Story of Light Ben Bova, 2002-10 From the origins of the earth to the exploration of the heavens, Ben Bova, a multiple winner of science fiction's Hugo Award, unveils the beauty and science of light. In accessible prose, he explains new discoveries in areas ranging from relativity and quantum physics to perspective and the Renaissance painters' use of light. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Library as Place Geoffrey T. Freeman, 2005 What is the role of a library when users can obtain information from any location? And what does this role change mean for the creation and design of library space? Six authors an architect, four librarians, and a professor of art history and classics explore these questions this report. The authors challenge the reader to think about new potential for the place we call the library and underscore the growing importance of the library as a place for teaching, learning, and research in the digital age. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction Patricia S. Warrick, 1980 Science-fiction criticism. Focuses on literary & scientific material. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: American Book Publishing Record , 1977-03-31 Here's quick access to more than 490,000 titles published from 1970 to 1984 arranged in Dewey sequence with sections for Adult and Juvenile Fiction. Author and Title indexes are included, and a Subject Guide correlates primary subjects with Dewey and LC classification numbers. These cumulative records are available in three separate sets. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Prador Moon Neal Asher, 2013-07-22 Neal Asher takes on first contact, Polity style. This original novel recounts the first contact between the aggressive Prador aliens, and the Polity Collective as it is forced to retool its society to a war footing. The overwhelming brute force of the Prador dreadnaughts causes several worlds and space stations to be overrun. Prador Moon follows the initial Polity defeats, to the first draws, and culminates in what might be the first Polity victory, told from the point of view of two unlikely heroes. For the first time in the US in eBook format. |
| the next logical step by ben bova: Science Fiction Magazine Story Index, 1926-1995 Terry A. Murray, 1999 Since the appearance of the first science fiction magazine in 1926, thousands of short stories have been published in periodicals devoted to the genre. These stories cover a wide range of subjects, from spacecraft to the human condition, and feature little-known authors as well as masters like Ellison and Asimov. In the past, finding which issue of what magazine ran a certain story was nearly impossible. This much-needed reference tool provides valuable assistance in the daunting task of locating short stories published in science fiction magazines, providing exhaustive indexes to magazines, authors, and titles, allowing a variety of options for research on 34,000 stories appearing in nearly 5,000 issues of 133 genre magazines. Stories from all major American publications, as well as from several minor periodicals, are indexed. Also included is an appendix of the best known and most prolific contributors, giving the titles of all their stories in this work (necessary because the huge author index does not show titles). A guide to how to use this book clarifies its features for the researcher. |
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