Privateers

by Ben Bova | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 0380793164 Global Overview for this book
Registered by johnevelyn of Waikiki, Hawaii USA on 8/6/2011
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Journal Entry 1 by johnevelyn from Waikiki, Hawaii USA on Saturday, August 6, 2011
This is the key book page for my grand tour project. I plan to read the entire series of books Ben Bova has written on the theme of human exploration of the solar system. The picture shows me in mid-August 2011 after I have managed to buy fourteen of the novels from Awesome Books. No doubt I will find the others eventually.

The Wikipedia entry for Ben Bova gives a suggested internal chronology (though the series lacks complete consistency) :

Powersat (2005)
Privateers (1985)
Empire Builders (1993)
Mars (1992)
Moonrise (1996; The Moonbase Saga, v. 1)
Return to Mars (1999)
Moonwar (1998; The Moonbase Saga, v. 2)
Venus (2000)
Precipice (2001; The Asteroid Wars, v. 1)
Jupiter (2001)
The Rock Rats (2002; The Asteroid Wars, v. 2)
The Silent War (2004; The Asteroid Wars, v. 3)
Saturn (2002)
Mercury (2005)
Titan (2006)
The Aftermath (2007; The Asteroid Wars, v. 4)
Mars Life (2008)
Leviathans of Jupiter (2011)
Tales of the Grand Tour (2004) - short stories spanning the timeline.

The Return (2009) - Bova also places this as a Grand Tour novel
Farside
Death Wave
Apes and Angels
Survival
Earth
Uranus
Neptune


Bova's website has suggested that the books can be read chronologically as follow;

Also Uranus.

1. POWERSAT (Tor Books 2005)
2. EMPIRE BUILDERS (Tor Books, 1993)
3. MARS (Bantam Books, 1992)
4. MOONRISE (Avon Books, 1996)
5. MOONWAR (Avon Books, 1998)
6. RETURN TO MARS (Avon Books, 1999)
7. THE PRECIPICE (Tor Books, 2001)
8. JUPITER (Tor Books, 2001)
9. THE ROCK RATS (Tor Books, 2002)
10. THE SILENT WAR (Tor Books, 2004)
11. THE AFTERMATH (Tor Books, 2007)
12. SATURN (Tor Books, 2003)
13. LEVIATHANS OF JUPITER (Tor Books, 2011)
14. TITAN (Tor Books, 2006)
15. MERCURY (Tor Books, 2005)
16. MARS LIFE (Tor Books, 2008)
17. VENUS (Tor Books, 2000)
18. THE RETURN (Tor Books, 2009)

Of course, there will be more to come. It took me a while to get around to reading this book that I finally got to in May 2012 while in Hong Kong, where I had originally conceived the plan to read the entire Grand Tour. This deals with a very early part of the exploration and a period where the US has abandoned space entirely and it has become dominated by a grasping Soviet Union. The astronomical organisations who are overseeing space exploration remain weak and largely under the thumb of the Soviet Union.





Journal Entry 2 by johnevelyn at Hang Hau, Sai Kung Hong Kong on Saturday, June 16, 2012

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