Exiles
Exiled From
Earth |
Flight of Exiles |
| End of Exile |
The
Exiles
Trilogy
Chris Moore
|
Exiled From
Earth (1971)
A rapidly
paced, tightly plotted story of a not-too-distant future when the
planet is ruled by a powerful World Government. Overpopulation is one
of its continuing concerns, and when the world's geneticists and
biochemists are close to a breakthrough that will make possible the
modification of the human embryo to remove unfavorable characteristics
or to implant desirable onces, the World Government acts secretly and
ruthlessly. In a swooping roundup, the scientists and their families
are removed to a satellite orbiting the earth.
Flight of
Exiles
(1972)
End of Exile
(1975)
The Exiles
Trilogy (1980)
Kinsman
Kinsman
Chris Moore
|
Millenium
Chris Moore
|
| The
Kinsman Saga (Onimbus) |
Kinsman (1979)
Millenium (1976)
The Kinsman Saga (Onimbus)
Hero
or Killer?
In
a startling future that's coming closer every year, Chet Kinsman is
an astronaut ace who has done everything in space - including
committing the first murder. It's a secret he can never escape, not
even on the Moon, where he's head of the first U.S. lunar colony.
But
suddenly, a series of shocking yet strangely inevitable
circumstances forces Kinsman to confront his hidden past and decide
Earth's destiny. In a desperate countdown to nuclear annihilation,
Kinsman struggles against a deadly paradox: if he rescues the world, he
may end up destroying himself.
The Voyagers
Voyagers
|
The Alien
Within
Boris Vallejo
|
Star Brothers
|
Voyagers
(1981)
The Alien Within
(1986)
Star Brothers
(1990)
To Save The Sun
To Save
The Sun
John Berkey
|
To Fear
The Light
John Berkey
|
To Save The
Sun
(1992)
To
Fear The
Light (1994)
Now,
choosing to leave behind the man she loved,
Adela has undergone cold sleep, returning two hundred years later to
oversee the final stages of her project. She awakens to an Empire
transformed: her son Eric is Emperor, faster-than-light travel has
finally been achieved, and humanity has spilled out into innumerable
self-sufficient new planets far beyond the Empire's Hundred Worlds.
More ominously, there are the alien Sarpans, bearing gifts of high
technology. Are they as benevolent as they seem, or are they the threat
the popular demagogue Jephthah claims they are? Several odd accidents
add fuel to the flames fanned by Jephthah's rhetoric. To make matters
worse, an investigation on a far planet suggests the existence of yet
another alien race...
Privateers
Privateers
Chris Moore |
Empire
Builders
Boris Vallejo
|
Privateers
(1985)
Empire Builders (1993)
Dan
Randolph never plays by the rules. As a 21st
century privateer, he has broken the political stranglehold on space
exploration and has become one of the world's richest men. Now Randolph
must save the world from those same politicians who want to impose a
world dictatorship.
Sam
Gunn
Sam
Gunn Unlimited
Stephen Youll
(1999)
|
Sam
Gunn Forever |
The
Sam Gunn Onimbus
John Berkey?
|
Sam Gunn Unlimited (1992)
Sam Gunn Forever (1998)
Sam
Gunn has a nose for trouble, money and women
- though not necessarily in that order. He's a hero without peer...or
scruples; a man with the ego and stature of a Napoleon, the business
acumen of a P.T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a newly pubescent
teenage boy. He's Sam Gunn, the finest astronaut NASA ever
trained...and dumped.
But
more than money, more than women, Sam Gunn loves justice! (Though
he does dearly love women and money.) Whether he's suing the Pope,
coming to the aid of voluptuous twin sisters in the "virtual sex"
trade, or on trial for his life on charges of interplanetary genocide,
you can be sure of one thing: this pint-sized space jockey will meet
every challenge with a smile on his lips, an ace up his sleeve...and a
blaster in his pocket!
The
Sam Gunn Onimbus (2007)
Moonrise
Moonrise
Paul
Young
|
Moonwar
Paul
Young
|
Moonrise (1996)
Former
astronaut Paul Stavenger is driven by his
vision of colonizing space. His dream becomes a reality with the
creation of a viable, flourishing, nearly self-sufficient community at
Moonbase. But Paul has made an implacable enemy; one who will carry his
vendetta to the frontiers of space.
Moonwar (1997)
Douglas
Stavenger and his dedicated team of
scientists are determined to defend their life's work, but
technology-hating factions on Earth want to close the flourishing space
colony, Moonbase. Can a combination of military defence and political
wisdom save the colony?
Grand Tour of The
Universe
Jupiter
John Harris
|
Saturn
John Harris
|
Tales
of the Grand Tour
John Harris
|
Mercury
John Harris
|
Powersat
|
Titan
John Harris
|
Venus (2000)
When
business tycoon Martin Humphries offers a
fortune to the first person to travel to Venus to recover the remains
of his son Alex, lost on the planet two years earlier, two men take him
up on his offer. One is his frail second son Van; the other is his
rival and greatest enemy. Bova's latest novel not only captures the
alien and hostile Venusian atmosphere but also manages to tell a
top-notch adventure story of broken dreams and lifelong hatreds that
match the turbulence of Venus itself.
Jupiter
(2000)
Grant
Archer merely wanted to work quietly as an
astronomer on the far side of the moon. But a coalition of censorious
do-gooders who run 21st century America sends him to a research station
in orbit around Jupiter to spy on the scientists who work there. What
they don't know is that Grant's loyalty to science may be greater than
his loyalty to the New Morality.
Saturn
(2003)
Second
in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a
thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing
gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and
attracts us:
SATURN
Earth
groans under the thumb 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 amidst the
idealism permeating Space Habitat Goddard are many individuals with
long-term schemes, each awaiting the tight moment. And hidden from them
is the greatest secret of all, the real purpose of this expedition,
known to only a few....
Tales of the Grand Tour
(2004)
In
novels like Mars and Moonbase, and Venus,
Jupiter, and Saturn, as well as Privateers, The Precipice, and The Rock
Rats, Ben Bova has been telling the stories of the wars and rivalries,
the outsize individuals, public crusades, and private passions that
will drive us as we expand into the Solar System and make use of its
vast resources. And throughout, Bova has shown our cosmic neighborhood
as we know it to be, giving us a sense of Venus and Jupiter and the
Asteroid Belt and Mars that's as up-to-date as the latest observations.
For the last two decades have been a golden age of near-Earth astronomy
and observation, and in his novels Bova has made dramatic use of our
newest knowledge.
But
during that time Bova has also written short fiction about some of
the same events and characters--Sam Gunn, Martin Humphries, Klaus
Fuchs, Dan Randolph, the Asteroid Wars. Now, in Tales of the Grand
Tour, those stories are collected in book form for the first time,
creating a volume that is a landmark of modern SF.
Mercury
(2005)
The
closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is an
airless, heat-scorched world where temperatures rise to four times
higher than the boiling point of water. But this vision of hell is also
a planet with unlimited solar power - worth a fortune to the space
tycoon Saito Yamagata if he can find a way to harness it. He has hired
the enigmatic Dante Alexios to establish a research station on the
surface of the planet and find a way to turn that solar energy into
portable power satellites. But Yamagata is secretly also preparing the
way to a very different dream: he wants to travel to the stars
themselves. And Alexios has his own obsession, a plot to lure an old
enemy to this hellhole of a world and take his revenge for one of the
worst disasters in human history.
Powersat
(2005)
Two
hundred thousand feet up, things go horribly
wrong. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry,
falling to earth over a trail hundreds of miles long. And it its wake
is the beginning of the most important mission in the history of space.
America
needs energy, and Dan Randolph is determined to give it to
them. He dreams of an array of geosynchronous powersats, satellites
which gather solar energy and beam it to generators on Earth, freeing
America from its addiction to fossil fuels and breaking the power of
the oil cartels forever. But the wreck of the spaceplane has left his
company, Astro Manufacturing, on the edge of bankruptcy.
Worse,
Dan discovers that the plane worked perfectly right up until the
moment that saboteurs knocked it out of the sky. And whoever brought it
down is willing and able to kill again to keep Astro grounded.
Now
Dan has to thread a dangerous maze. The visible threats are bad
enough: Rival firms want to buy him out and take control of his dreams.
His former lover wants to co-opt his unlimited-energy ideal as a
campaign plank for the candidate she's grooming for the presidency.
NASA and the FAA want to shut down his maverick firm. And his creditors
are breathing down his neck.
Making
matters even more dangerous, an international organization of
terrorists sees the powersat as a threat to their own oil-based power.
And they've figured out how to use it as a weapon in their war against
the West.
A
sweeping mix of space, murder, romance, politics, secrets, and
betrayal, Powersat will take you to the edge of space and the dawning
of a new world.
Titan
(2006)
Titan
Alpha has landed: the most complex man-made
object to reach Saturn's largest moon. The ten thousand men and women
of Habitat Goddard are once more at the frontier of science. From their
huge, artificial paradise hanging in orbit above Saturn, some of them
dream of landing on Titan's surface. Others will do anything to prevent
such a landing. And yet others have darker, secret plans. But almost
immediately, Titan Alpha goes silent. And minor, inexplicable faults
start to affect Goddard. Is there a basic design flaw that could
threaten the lives of everyone on board? Or has one of the many
malcontents exiled to space decided to sabotage the probe or even the
whole expedition? The newest chapter in Ben Bova's epic of space
exploration brings to vivid, awe-inspiring life a barren world of
swirling smog, frozen methane seas - and perhaps even a new sentient
life form.
Asteroid Wars
The Precipice
|
The Rock Rats
|
The Silent Wart
|
The
Aftermath |
 '
The Asteriod Wars
Onimbus
|
The
Precipice
(2001)
Once,
Dan Radolph was one of the richest men on
Earth, but now that the planet is spiralling into environmental
disaster, he must look to the wealth of the stars to save the economy.
Martin Humphries is also aware of the potential of space-based
industry, but he does not care if Earth perishes
The Rock
Rats
(2002)
Martin
Humphries - the fabulously wealthy, coldly
ruthless owner of the greatest space-based industrial giant - has been
checked, but his malice and ambition remain. He still dreams of
bankrupting the rival space exploration company Astro Manufacturing and
bringing the independent prospectors who are beginning to stake claims
on large and small rocks of the Asteroid Belt under his control. And
most of all, he wants to capture the love of beautiful Amanda
Cunningham, the woman who spurned his money, and take his revenge on
Lars Fuchs, the space prospector who both defied Humphries and married
Amanda. His weapons will be piracy, sabotage and murder. The Asteroid
Wars have entered a violent new era.
The Silent War
(2004)
A man obsessed
Exiling
his last great rival Lars Fuchs into deep space, Humphries has
finally claimed the woman who has long been the object of his desire,
Fuchs’ wife Amanda. He now controls the exploration – and exploitation
– of space almost unchallenged. Yet he is still not satisfied. He wants
a son by Amanda; he wants Lars Fuchs dead; and he wants to control the
development of the Moon. If the free space prospectors of the asteroid
Ceres resist, he will destroy them. Nothing short of total domination
will suffice.
However,
another power is building up its strength in secret, watching
and waiting for a chance to seize the vast empire that Humphries has
built . . .
The Aftermath
(2007)
Mars
Mars
|
Return
to Mars
Greg Bridges
|
Mars Life
John Harris?
|
Mars
(1992)
Told
in a grand, sweeping style, it recounts the
epic story of the first manned mission to Mars - man's great
unconquered frontier.
Return
to Mars (1999)
Some
of the survivors of that journey and an
international crew of astronauts, engineers and scientists are on their
way back for a mission whose human secrets will be as explosive as the
scientific discoveries they make.
Mars
Life (2008)
Novels
| The Weather
Makers |
Out of the Sun
|
| Escape! |
As
on a Darkling Plane |
The Winds of Altair
Chris Moore
|
|
When
the Sky Burned |
| The
Star Crossed |
City of Darkness |
| Colony |
Test
of Fire
Chris Moore?
|
| Peacekeepers |
| The
Multiple Man |
Cyber Books
Boris Vallejo
|
| Triumph
|
Death Dream
Gerry Grace
|
| Brothers |
The
Green Trap
|
The Weather
Makers (1969)
Out of the Sun
(1968)
Escape (1970)
As
on a Darkling Plane (1972)
Alive
with a ceaseless throbbing the towers
loomed over th efrozen wastes of Titan. Menacing alien machines with
secret functions men could only guess at. Doctor Sidney Lee must solve
those secrets, because somewhere in the universe beyond a powerful
star-roving race is gathering. the Others, mankind's implacable enemy,
had come once before bringing destruction, bathing the earth with fire
and ice.
If
they return begore Lee solves his mystery, there will be no hope for
tomorrow.
The
Winds of Altair (1972)
Jeff
Holman is determined to terraform Altair VI
into a home for the people of dying Earth. But he discovers that Altair
VI hides a terrible secret, and he is faced with a soul-wrenching
decision-for to make Altair VI habitable for humans, all native life
must die. Including a race as intelligent as Man.
When
the Sky Burned (1973)
The Star Crossed (1975)
City of Darkness (1976)
The Multiple Man (1976)
Colony (1978)
The
Earth has been poisoned by pollution, choked by overpopulation, and
ravaged by the mindless greed of power-hungry corporations. A fragile
peace is threatened by landless revolutionaries and global anarchy
seems imminent.
Yet
a single ray of hope remains. . .
Island
One is a celestial utopia, and David Adams is its most perfect
creation-a man with a brain as advanced as any computer and a body free
of human frailties. But David is a prisoner-a captive of the colony
that created him-destined to spend the days of his life in an
island-sized cylinder that circles a doomed and desperate home planet.
Thousands of miles below him, a world trembles; its people cringe in
terror and despair in anticipation of an impending apocalypse. And as
Earth's boundaries, fate has cast one extraordinary human in the role
of savior. For David Adams gas a plan-one that will ultimately ensure
the salvation of his species. . .or its annihilation.
Test
of Fire (1982)
Peacekeepers (1988)
Cyber Books (1989)
Triumph (1993)
Death Dream (1999)
In a
USAF lab in Ohio, combat veteran and test
pilot Jerry Adair experiences for the first time flight simulation
enhanced by Virtual Reality. He dies. At a school in Orlando, Florida,
twelve-year-old Angela, gliding through the VR underwater wonderland,
finds the mermaid princess watching over her father. He is dead. Jace
Lowrey is the brilliant one. Dan Santorini, the quiet, regular guy. As
a team they are unbeatable. Their ideas work. Up into
beyond-state-of-the-art reality. Ideas that a corporation - or
government agency would kill for.
Brothers
(1995)
The Green Trap (2006)
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