- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Books (Mm); Reissue edition (April 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553251457
- ISBN-13: 978-0553251456
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
Voyagers (Ben Bova Series)
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Ex-astronaut turned physicist Keith Stoner knows the signals picked up at his space station are not random. The message is heading straight for Earth, and Stoner will do anything to be the first man to confront the enigma, even if he loses his only love.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
What would happen if a spaceship was detected in our solar system? This is the dilemma that is faced by the lead protagonist - Keith Stoner and a crack team of scientists. It is a story fraught with conspiracies, cover-ups, you name it. Although the story seems to take an age to get to the point and action is something that happens in other novels, it does deliver a decent read. Whether mankind would react to a visitor from space in the way Bova describes, is, as they say, another story and indeed I am now reading "Voyagers II - The Alien Within." So far, pretty flippin' good.
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A wonderful book, a page turner and compares so well with much newer SciFi fiction who would have thought that so much of Star Trek would have come from Ben Bova's books read them and see.The Exiles Trilogy
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Contact with extraterrestrial intelligence is, of course, one of the biggest themes in the whole of science fiction, if not THE biggest. Bova has a stab at it in this book, and does pretty well. It is a page-turner, although perhaps a little over-long.
A lot of people think that, if the governments of the world were to discover alien intelligence, they would keep it a secret. Maybe they are! But what if an alien spaceship came into the solar system, and headed for Earth, and it was no longer possible to keep it a secret? What would happen? Such is the storyline in this novel.
Bova writes SF well, with good characters, and various happenings. Alas, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, this novel is already alternative history. Nonetheless it remains readable.
The central character is Keith Stoner, already an experienced astronaut, who is utterly single-minded in his desire to lead a space mission to meet the alien vessel. Can a mission be stitched together in time? And if it is, what will Stoner find? You will have to read it to find out!
I would not call this a classic, and I doubt if some of the things in the book would happen like that. Nonetheless, if you like SF, it's not a bad read.
A lot of people think that, if the governments of the world were to discover alien intelligence, they would keep it a secret. Maybe they are! But what if an alien spaceship came into the solar system, and headed for Earth, and it was no longer possible to keep it a secret? What would happen? Such is the storyline in this novel.
Bova writes SF well, with good characters, and various happenings. Alas, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, this novel is already alternative history. Nonetheless it remains readable.
The central character is Keith Stoner, already an experienced astronaut, who is utterly single-minded in his desire to lead a space mission to meet the alien vessel. Can a mission be stitched together in time? And if it is, what will Stoner find? You will have to read it to find out!
I would not call this a classic, and I doubt if some of the things in the book would happen like that. Nonetheless, if you like SF, it's not a bad read.
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definitely not an award winner
It's easy to see why this book didn't win any awards!
- The writing is pedestrian (though maybe that doesn't matter - it is a thriller, after all)
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- The writing is pedestrian (though maybe that doesn't matter - it is a thriller, after all)
- The plot... Read more
Published 4 months ago by H. Ashford
Good start of a promising saga
This is the first book written by Ben Bova that I read, and was really sceptic about it. I thought it was a mix of space opera and something else (actually, I didn't pay attention... Read more
Published 15 months ago by ManInsideTheHelm
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