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Sam Gunn Jr., March 2022
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My Favorites, October 2021
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Neptune, August 2021
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Earth, September 2020
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Uranus, August 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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EARTH
By: Ben Bova

Tor Science Fiction
September 2020
On Sale: August 25, 2020
352 pages
ISBN: 076539720X
EAN: 9780765397201
Kindle: B07GV92B17
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Science Fiction

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 two thousand 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.