Publisher Description
New Frontiers offers
fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from Ben
Bova, six-time winner of the Hugo Award.
Frontiers can be found in all directions—frontiers of time
and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outer
limits of the human spirit. This outstanding collection of stories by one of
science fiction’s premier talents spans the length and breadth of history and
the universe while exploring thought-provoking new ideas and dilemmas.
From the Baghdad of The Arabian Nights to a vast
interstellar empire thousands of years in the future, from the Vatican to a
one-man vessel drifting in the vast emptiness of the asteroid belt, from
virtual reality duels to the subtle intricacies of time travel and a golf
tournament on the moon, here are tales of scoundrels and heroes, scientists and
explorers, aliens and artificial intelligences, and even a young Albert
Einstein. Each of them stands at the border of a new frontier and must venture
out into unexplored territory—thanks to the limitless imagination of Ben
Bova.
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“It hardly needs proving that Bova is as effective
with shorter fiction as he is with novels. The fourteen stories here range
widely in subject, from virtual reality to asteroid mining to golf
courses on the moon…Altogether, a whole tray full of treats.”
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Booklist
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 the Narrators
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.
Paul Boehmer is an American actor best known for his numerous appearances in the Star Trek universe, in addition to Frasier, Judging Amy, Guiding Light, and All My Children. He is a 1992 Masters of Fine Arts graduate of the Professional Theater Training Program at the University of Delaware. As a narrator, Paul has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as an Audie Award.
Paul Boehmer is an American actor best known for his numerous appearances in the Star Trek universe, in addition to Frasier, Judging Amy, Guiding Light, and All My Children. He is a 1992 Masters of Fine Arts graduate of the Professional Theater Training Program at the University of Delaware. As a narrator, Paul has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as an Audie Award.
Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her “velvet touch” as an actor’s director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost producer for bestselling authors and celebrities.
Alex Hyde-White is an actor and a producer of two films and hundreds of audiobooks thru his label Punch Audio.