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Name: Moonrise Audiobook
Brand: Blackstone Publishing
SKU: 5466
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Rating: 3.01 (679 reviews)
Author: Ben Bova
ISBN: 9781483071688

By: Ben Bova

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Read By: Stefan Rudnicki Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: 18.25 hours at 1.0x Speed 12.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 9.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Series: The Grand Tour Series Release Date: July 2009 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781483071688

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Longest Chapter Length:

27:42 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

01:32 minutes

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12:13 minutes

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Publisher Description

There is a future of astonishing possibilities waiting on a lifeless world of surprising contrasts, where sub-frigid darkness abuts the blood-boiling light—a future threatened by greed and jealousy, insanity and murder.

A twenty-first-century US aerospace company has developed the first permanent human settlement on the moon. The settlement is made possible by major scientific breakthroughs, particularly in the practical use of nanotechnology—microscopic machines that can build structures on the moon using raw lunar materials, as well as correct damage done to the human body by illness and injury. But conflict within the company’s founding family and growing protests against the technology from radical environmentalists and religious fundamentalists on Earth put Moonbase in danger of closure. Former astronaut and brilliant visionary Paul Stavenger must prevent the project from falling into the wrong hands as a power struggle leads to murder and the near destruction of Moonbase.

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"Ben Bova writes wonderful science fiction about outposts of humans on other planets, etc. THis was another very entertaining book that makes you feel like you are living on the moon. "
— Heidi (4 out of 5 stars)

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“Ben Bova is trying to make us grow up…There’s certainly enough techie ornamentation, both in theory and in plausible practice, to satisfy the pocket-protector crowd, but there’s also more, and better developed, conflict among characters than many folks would expect.”
— San Diego Union-Tribune
“[An] epic novel of lunar conquest.”
— Orlando Sentinel
“Thrilling…epic…a sprawling story…Bova looks at the near future and the technology that is within our grasp…He has managed to bring a little bit of the future back for readers to examine today.”
— Hartford Courant
“Bova’s picture of life on the moon and the technology necessary to sustain it is highly believable.”
— Publishers Weekly
“This exciting, realistic near-future tale is an essential purchase for SF collections.”
— Library Journal

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" Great Book. It all seemed very plausible for the near future. Great Characters. "
— Allen, 10/29/2013
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" could do w/o the sexism but I love hard sci fi : ) "
— Gretchen, 9/24/2013
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" Even though Moonrise had Stefan Rudnicki narrating and I really love his narration, I just wasn't interested in the story. "
— Tressa, 8/28/2013
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" Weak sci-fi. "
— AJ, 12/13/2012
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" Standing up for yourself is always the right thing to do. "
— Drew, 11/25/2012
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" Ben Bova writes wonderful science fiction about outposts of humans on other planets, etc. THis was another very entertaining book that makes you feel like you are living on the moon. "
— Heidi, 11/11/2012
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" Man's early exploration of space. "
— Randy, 8/28/2012
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" 1 & 1/2 stars only. Flat two dimensional characters, stereotypes all, make up the cast of this basic sci if tale of a moon base, and the troubles which befall the family who runs it. Sub standard writing and storyline. Kept reading to see if it would improve. It didn't. "
— Maggie, 6/15/2012
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" I liked this book. Not the best sci-fi i've ever read, but good enough for me to start reading the second book in this series. "
— Jane, 6/7/2012
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" So great - It's gonna happen, just you wait and see. "
— Kate, 12/13/2011
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" a soap opera in space, many cool sci fi elements introduced in a very unimaginative way. No surprises. "
— Waltor, 11/19/2011
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" A sci-fi thriller with a paranoid protagonist. Conflict over technology with fundamentalist religious zealots driving humanity backwards. I like Ben Bova's books. "
— George, 8/6/2011
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" If the mother didn't want to smack yourself after she makes the same mistake for the millionth time, the book would have gotten the 5th star. "
— Daniel, 7/13/2011
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" So great - It's gonna happen, just you wait and see. "
— Kate, 12/30/2010
Overall Performance:
" Standing up for yourself is always the right thing to do. "
— Drew, 9/2/2010
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" a soap opera in space, many cool sci fi elements introduced in a very unimaginative way. No surprises. "
— Waltor, 12/24/2009
Overall Performance:
" Great Book. It all seemed very plausible for the near future. Great Characters. "
— Allen, 7/7/2008

About Ben Bova

Ben Bova (1932–2020), American author of more than one hundred books of science fact and fiction, was awarded posthumously the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. His work earned six Hugo Awards. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and his novel Titan won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel of 2006. In his early career, he was a technical editor for Project Vanguard, the United States’s first effort to launch a satellite into space in 1958. He then was a science writer for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, which built the heat shields for the Apollo 11 module. He held the position of president emeritus of the National Space Society and served as president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.