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Uranus

Yazan: Ben Bova
Seslendiren: Stefan Rudnicki
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Ben Bova, author of Earth, continues his exploration of the future of a human-settled Solar System with the science fiction action adventure Uranus.

On a privately financed orbital habitat above the planet Uranus, political idealism conflicts with pragmatic—and illegal—methods of financing. Add a scientist who has funding to launch a probe deep into Uranus’s ocean depths to search for signs of life, and you have a three-way struggle for control.

Humans can’t live on the gas giants, making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has built Haven, a sanctuary above the distant planet Uranus. He invites “the tired, the sick, the poor” of Earth to his orbital retreat where men and women can find spiritual peace and refuge from the world.

The billionaire who financed Haven, however, has his own designs: beyond the reach of the laws of the inner planets, Haven could become the center for an interplanetary web of narcotics, prostitution, and even hunting human prey.

Meanwhile a scientist has gotten funding from the Inner Planets to drop remote probes into the “oceans” of Uranus, in search of life. He brings money and prestige, but he also brings journalists and government oversight to Haven. And they can’t have that.

©2020 Ben Bova (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing First Contact Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Exploration
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I have been reading Bova for decades and as I have audible I thought I would listen to this book.

A space station is produced as an ark for the poor around Uranus. It is utopia, but is it really? What is the secret of Uranus? Pronounced U Ran us. Everything is going well then Bova throws in a curve ball, religion, prostitution, drugs, murders. This is where the story starts to fall to pieces. In an SF novel I want to know about mystery of the planet, not a drugs war.

It could have been a classic. More SF and less melodrama is what is needed.

Interesting Bova take on isolationist colony.

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With the repeated details of what’s going on. The same manner of speech from all characters. The continuous description of everyone’s attire. This book is seriously padded and could be half its length. The premise is interesting, the application contrived, boring and incomplete.
Compared to the earlier works in this series (Mars, Moonwars etc), this is poor.

Ben seriously needs a new editor

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Don't waste your credits on this, it's quite awful. Compared to other Ben Bova books the science part is very minimal and instead we get a very undercooked crime and a very undercooked romance plot set on a space station. Both are lackluster and unrealistic, because the characters lack any depth. A few plot threads get outright dropped along the way, which makes me wonder if this book was even finished. If you wonder why it's 8 hours long, at least 3 of them are description of furniture and attire and another 3 are allocated to repeating what everyone already knows 30 or 40 times. Just skip. The resolution at the end makes no sense and is not worth the long boring journey there.

It's just very bad

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