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Pluto, November 2025
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Sam Gunn Jr., March 2022
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Neptune, August 2021
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Earth, September 2020
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Space Station Down, August 2020
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Survival, January 2019
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Power Failure, October 2018
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Apes and Angels, October 2017
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Apes and Angels, December 2016
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Power Surge, May 2016
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Death Wave, November 2015
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Power Surge, August 2015
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Carbide Tipped Pens, December 2014
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Leviathans of Jupiter, February 2011
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URANUS
By: Ben Bova

Tor Books
August 2020
On Sale: July 21, 2020
384 pages
ISBN: 1250296544
EAN: 9781250296542
Kindle: B07X18BV85
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Science Fiction | Science Fiction Alternate History

Ben Bova, author of Earth, continues his exploration of the future of a human-settled Solar System with the science fiction action adventure Uranus, the first of his Outer Planets trilogy.

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, 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.