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" I generally like Ben Bova's novels and stories from his Grand Tour series. This one I felt wasn't up to his usual level. A story of vengeance on the hottest planet in the solar system does have a kind of poetry to it, and on that level worked okay. "
- Pete, 10/31/2013
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" The end of the tour, but the beginning of the future "
- Drew, 9/16/2013
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" More Depressing than Jupiter, but no less entertaining. One of the charactes built a sky tower that goes into space. "
- John, 3/19/2013
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" Another fabulous Ben Bova voyage into outer space. I love his books! "
- Mitch, 12/20/2011
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" This is the first Ben Bova I have read. It was great! Fast-paced and really well-written. An interesting science fiction novel with a great plot. "
- Robert, 8/31/2011
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" Re-reading some Sci-Fi that I had sitting around and am enjoying Bova's series. Many of his books are linked even if only by one common character or event. Some day I will go through them all just to find those links... probably not. "
- Keith, 2/10/2011
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" Good stuff, the narrative structure worked well. The chapters were short and the writing to-the-point and easy to read. Mance/Dante was a great and tragic character, at first I didn't like him at all, but by the half-way point of the book I was rooting for him. "
- Kalle, 11/7/2010
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" Fun, but definitely not the best of his works. It had too little to do with the planet and with science. The suspense wasn't there. "
- Morgan, 9/22/2010
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" The end of the tour, but the beginning of the future
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- Drew, 9/2/2010
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" Fun, but definitely not the best of his works. It had too little to do with the planet and with science. The suspense wasn't there.
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- Morgan, 1/26/2010
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" Meh(hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh).
Halfway through, don't care to go on. Bland bland bland. Yet unsubtle. Whole book club agreed it did not make us eager to read another Ben Bova.
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- Rachel, 11/8/2009
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" This is the first Ben Bova I have read. It was great! Fast-paced and really well-written. An interesting science fiction novel with a great plot.
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- Robert, 2/24/2009
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" I generally like Ben Bova's novels and stories from his Grand Tour series. This one I felt wasn't up to his usual level. A story of vengeance on the hottest planet in the solar system does have a kind of poetry to it, and on that level worked okay.
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- Pete, 1/15/2008
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