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Survival by Ben Bova

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Also by Ben Bova:

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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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Carbide Tipped Pens, December 2014
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Leviathans of Jupiter, February 2011
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SURVIVAL
By: Ben Bova

Star Quest Trilogy #3
Tor Science Fiction
January 2019
On Sale: December 31, 2018
352 pages
ISBN: 0765379554
EAN: 9780765379559
Kindle: B072MG1N1L
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Science Fiction

In Surivival, a human team sent to scout a few hundred lightyears in front of the death wave encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences.

These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons, and have survived earlier β€œdeath waves,” gamma ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm them, and utterly uninterested in helping to save other civilizations, organic or machine.

But now that the humans have discovered them, they refuse to allow them to leave their planet, reasoning that other humans will inevitably follow if they learn of their existence.

Star Quest

Death Wave
DEATH WAVE
#1.0 β€’ November 2015
Apes and Angels
APES AND ANGELS
#2.0 β€’ December 2016