Grand tour of the solar system
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1) Powersat
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 1
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Tor
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Dan Randolph's powersats--satellites that gather energy from the sun and beam it back to Earth--are jeopardized when his company's experimental plane is sabotaged upon re-rentryinto Earth's atmosphere, and he learns of several plots to crush his dreams--and profits--for alternative energy.
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Dan Randolph never plays by the rules. A hell-raising maverick with no patience for fools, he is admired by his friends, feared by his enemies, and desired by the world's loveliest women. Acting as a twenty-first privateer, Randolph broke the political strangle-hold on space exploration, and became one of the world's richest men in the bargain.
Now an ecological crisis threatens Earth--and the same politicians that Randolph outwitted the first time...
3) Moonrise
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In the twenty-first century, the world is on the brink of a scientific renaissance, about to birth a future where space has become privatized and the moon transforms into a fertile commercial ground. As former astronaut Paul Stavenger works to turn a handful of abandoned government moon shelters into a full-fledged moonbase, powerful corporate lobbies align against him. Against the neo-Luddites is Masterson Aerospace, a company funding and creating...
4) Mars
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Jamie Waterman is a young Navaho geologist who is picked for the ground team of the first manned expedition to Mars. He will be joining an international team of astronauts and scientists. But once the crew land on the red planet, they soon discover they must battle not only the alien land on which they have invaded but earthbound bureaucrats as well. When they come face to face with a chasm ten times as deep and large as the Grand Canyon, all twenty-five...
5) Moonwar
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A lunar colony faces off with corrupt Earth forces intent on destroying it, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Moonrise. This fast-paced, high-tech adventure is the continuation of the story of Douglas Stavenger, the Kennedy-esque scion of Moonbase's founding dynasty. While Moonbase has been flourishing under Stavenger's management, its existence, and even Stavenger's life, both depend on nanotechnology that has been outlawed on Earth...
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 6
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English
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Jamie Waterman, unsettled since returning to Earth from a Mars expedition six years earlier, signs on as commander of a second mission to the Red Planet where he hopes to investigate a structure he glimpsed on his last visit that could only have been built by an intelligent being.
8) Jupiter
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 8
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Tor
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English
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Astronomer Grant Archer is torn away from his young bride and sent to a research station in orbit around Jupiter, where he finds himself struggling to stay alive.
10) The silent war
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Tor
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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The future of Earth and human accomplishments in space hang in the balance when fighting for control of the resources of the Asteroid Belt escalates between the Astro Corporation and Humphries Space Systems, and others try to take advantage of the chaos.
11) Saturn
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 11
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
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English
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The governments of Earth are encouraging their most incorrigible dissidents to join an expedition to Saturn, where human nature soon leads to violence, deception, and danger.
12) Titan
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 12
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Tor
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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In 2095, the gigantic colony ship "Goddard" carries a population of more than ten thousand dissidents, rebels, extremists, and visionaries to the remote Titan moon of Saturn, where they face danger, uncertainty, and tension to create a new world for themselves.
13) The Aftermath
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Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in The Aftermath.
In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the ore-carrier Syracuse. With his wife and two children he plies the Asteroid Belt, hauling whatever cargo can be found. When the Syracuse stumbles into the middle of a military attack on the habitat Chrysalis, Victor...
14) Mercury
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 14
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"A Tom Doherty Associates book." Science Fiction books collection--look for Science Fiction spine label.
15) Mars life
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 15
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Tor
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Jamie Waterman, the man who first discovered cliff dwellings on Mars, tries desperately to keep his funding from being pulled when the U.S. government becomes increasingly influenced by the ultraconservative New Morality movement which keeps coming up with reasons to shift money away from the Mars project and back to Earth.
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Venus , Grand tour of the solar system volume 16
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The return , Grand tour of the solar system volume 17
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Tor
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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In Ben Bova's novel JUPITER, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter's hostile planetwide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environment and crushing pressures, Grant's team faced certain death as their ship malfunctioned and slowly sank to the planet's depths. However one of Jupiter's native creatures-a city-sized leviathan-saved the doomed ship. This...
19) Farside
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 19
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"The discovery of an Earth-sized planet 30 light years from Earth sparks a race to develop a telescope to create a photographic record of the new world. The far side of the moon, with its "clear" view of space, seems an ideal location, but the project's planners must contend with rivalries from the existing moon colony of Selene. Sent from Earth to assist Dr. Ulrich, director of Angel Observatory, Dr. Trudy Yost immediately becomes involved in the...
20) New Earth
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 20
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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We've found another Earthlike planet, but what secrets does it hold? The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new, Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of water and a breathable, oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to learn more, an exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth. All the explorers understand that they are essentially on a one-way mission. The trip takes eighty years...
21) Earth
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 21
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"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...