Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his prot g , pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate.
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Much of his recent work, including Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, The Precipice, and The Rock Rats, falls into the continuity he calls "The Grand Tour," a large-scale saga of the near-future exploration and development of our solar system.
Among his dozens of novels are Millennium, The Kinsman Saga, Colony, Orion, Peacekeepers, Privateers, and the Voyagers series.
A published SF author from the late 1950s onward, Bova is one of the field\'s leading writers of "hard SF," science fiction based on plausible science and engineering.
He has won science fiction\'s Hugo Award for Best Editor six times.
After leaving Analog in 1978, he continued his editorial work in science fiction, serving as fiction editor of Omni for several years and editing a number of anthologies and lines of books, including the "Ben Bova Presents" series for Tor.
About the Author: Born in Philadelphia, Ben Bova worked as a newspaper reporter, a technical editor for Project Vanguard (the first American satellite program), and a science writer and marketing manager for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, before being appointed editor of Analog, one of the leading science fiction magazines, in 1971.
Before it ends, many will die-and many will achieve more than they ever dreamed was possible.
Brimming with memorable characters and human conflict, rugged high-tech prospectors and boardroom betrayals, The Rock Rats continues the tale of our near-future struggle over the incalculable wealth of the Asteroid Belt, the richest source of raw mineral wealth known to humankind.
Humphries wants revenge against Pancho-and, most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs\'s wife.
For Randolph\'s rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business.
She has her work cut out for her.
Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his prot g , pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate
