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Book Two in the Asteroid Wars-continuing the saga of the struggle for the wealth of the Solar System Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her-for Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho-and, most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs's wife. Before it ends, many will die-and many will achieve more than they ever dreamed was possible.
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"The Asteroid Wars in a series by Ben Bova, one of the three trinity of sci fi writers I read most often: Bova, Bear, and Benford. Too much human melodrama, but also very good speculations on how to overcome the distances of space, artificial gravity, loneliness, etc."
— Abbey (5 out of 5 stars)
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“Bova in top form.
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Compelling.
— Booklist -
Hard-charging. . . . Ambitiously juggling elements of space opera, western, and Sophoclean drama, Bova keeps the pages turning.
— Publishers Weekly
The Rock Rats Listener Reviews
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" Interesting read, but many of the characters are just a bit too over the top. It does make me want to get the sequel however... "
— Falbs, 12/24/2013 -
" Not as good as the first novel in the series since you are basically accustomed to the ideas introduced. The action does pick up though with realistic space battles (due to piracy) being the main focus. "
— Crusader, 12/3/2013 -
" This was a step up in quality. I'm not sure what Bova did, but the scope was grander, and the stakes seemed higher. Nicely done! "
— Doc, 11/29/2013 -
" Formulaic, cardboard characters and I am sure that several laws of physics are broken during the space "battles" Second book of a series. Liked the post-green house collapse of Earth but the characters left me uninvolved. "
— Mark, 3/18/2013 -
" The second in a series of books dealing with earth after our blue marble falls off the "greenhouse cliff". It's good, competent speculative fiction. "
— Paul, 2/24/2013 -
" Sometimes you can't just be left alone "
— Drew, 1/25/2013 -
" book two in the asteroid wars. "
— Randy, 11/10/2012 -
" A definite improvement from the first book, "The Precipice". The world and characters were more flushed out. Enjoyed the kind of cowboy feel to the asteroid mining. Seems though that the series has lost the urgency of the dwindling earth. "
— Samantha, 10/20/2012 -
" not too bad, but a step down from the first book. "
— Ray, 7/19/2012 -
" Lars Fuchs is newly married and sets off with his bride to prospect the astroids. But he has problems. A rich man wants to control astroid mining and wants his wife. Plus his wife is not happy living as a prospector. "
— Fredrick, 7/6/2012 -
" The sequel to The Precipice. Mining the Asteroid Belt. "
— Chris, 3/27/2012 -
" ben bova brings utter realism and page turning wonder to the table once again with this second part to the asteroid wars quadrilogy. "
— Paddythemic, 1/22/2012 -
" An exploration of the nature of revenge and lust for power. As always, Ben Bova's characters are real people for whom you care about, even to an extent the villains. "
— Rob, 3/28/2011 -
" Not as good as the first novel in the series since you are basically accustomed to the ideas introduced. The action does pick up though with realistic space battles (due to piracy) being the main focus. "
— Crusader, 2/10/2011 -
" Sometimes you can't just be left alone "
— Drew, 9/2/2010 -
" An exploration of the nature of revenge and lust for power. As always, Ben Bova's characters are real people for whom you care about, even to an extent the villains. "
— Rob, 8/13/2009 -
" book two in the asteroid wars. "
— Randy, 7/20/2009 -
" The sequel to The Precipice. Mining the Asteroid Belt. "
— Chris, 6/21/2009 -
" The second in a series of books dealing with earth after our blue marble falls off the "greenhouse cliff". It's good, competent speculative fiction. "
— Paul, 1/11/2009
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 Amanda Karr
Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.