Space Station Down by Ben Bova audiobook

Space Station Down

By Ben Bova  and Doug Beason
Read by Samantha Desz

Tantor Audio 9781250307439

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9781665199919

  • ISBN: 9781665199933

Runtime: 9.13 Hours
Category: Fiction/Science Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

When an ultra-rich space tourist visits the orbiting International Space Station, NASA expects a $100 million win-win: his visit will bring in much needed funding and publicity. But the tourist venture turns into a scheme of terror. Together with an extremist cosmonaut, the tourist slaughters all the astronauts on board the million-pound ISS—and prepares to crash it into New York City at 17,500 miles an hour, causing more devastation than a hundred atomic bombs. In doing so, they hope to annihilate the world's financial system.

All that stands between them and their deadly goal is the lone survivor aboard the ISS, Kimberly Hasid-Robinson, a newly divorced astronaut who has barricaded herself in a secure area.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

Brought to life in a true 'theatre of the mind' experience by the expert and dramatic narrative skills of Samantha Desz, this complete and unabridged audio book edition of "Space Station Down" by the collaborative team of science fiction authors Ben Bova and Doug Beason is an extraordinarily entertaining and unreservedly recommended addition to community library audio book collections and a 'must' for the legions of Ben Bova fans. Midwest Book Review

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Author

Author Bio: Ben Bova

Author Bio: 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.

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Author Bio: Doug Beason

Author Bio: Doug Beason

Doug Beason is the author of fourteen books, eight with collaborator Kevin J. Anderson, including Ignition and Ill Wind, as well as two non-fiction books. A Nebula Award finalist, Doug’s short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and he has written for publications as diverse as Analog, Amazing Stories, and Physical Review Letters. Doug and Kevin’s novel The Trinity Paradox holds the distinction of being the first work of fiction ever nominated for the American Physical Society’s Forum award for promoting the understanding of physics in society, and was the first novel ever reviewed in Physics Today.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Science Fiction
Runtime: 9.13
Audience: Adult
Language: English