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  • The Grand Tour Series, Book 23
  • By: Ben Bova
  • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
  • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (37 ratings)
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By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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Summary

Earth is the latest science fiction novel from multiple Hugo Award winner Ben Bova, author of Apes and Angels and Survival.

A wave of lethal gamma radiation is expanding from the core of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light, killing everything in its path. The countdown to when the death wave will reach Earth and the rest of the solar system is at 2,000 years.

Humans were helped by the Predecessors, who provided shielding generators that can protect the solar system. In return, the Predecessors asked humankind’s help to save other intelligent species that are in danger of being annihilated. 

But what of Earth? With the Death Wave no longer a threat to humanity, humans have spread out and colonized all the worlds of the solar system. The technology of the Predecessors has made Earth a paradise, at least on the surface. But a policy of exiling discontented young people to the outer planets and asteroid mines has led to a deep divide between the new worlds and the homeworld, and those tensions are about to explode into open war.

©2019 Ben Bova (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

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Really enjoyable listen and fast paced.

Really enjoyed listening to this book. I’ve been a fan of his writing and this one is fast paced and an easy listen.

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More of the same.

If you have read any or all of the other 22 books in the grand tour series, it helps.
Your satisfaction levels depend on what your expecting, having read most of the grand tour, earth makes more sense to me than it obviously has for some other listeners.
If you expect proper "hard" Sci fi, don't read bova, most of his books are more about relationships and vary from no Sci fi and lots of badly done sex, like voyagers series, to later novels with more Sci fi, he has been around a long time, some have aged badly, such as voyagers, series started in 1981 and it shows, 40 years later.

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Just as well it was free!

Garbage
Garbage and even ..
Garbage!
And I am so grateful it cost me zip, nada, zero!
Apart that is the few hours I’ll never get back!

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