Jupiter - by Ben Bova (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Astrophysics student Grant Archer is sent by a coalition of the "New Morality" of 21st century America to a research station in orbit around Jupiter to spy on the scientists who work there. Their work may lead to the discovery of higher life forms in the Jovian system--with implications the New Morality doesn't like at all. What lurks there is more than anyone has counted on--and stranger than anyone could imagine.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Grant Archer only wanted to study astrophysics. But the forces of the "New Morality," the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run 21st-century America, have other plans for him. </p><p>To his distress, Grant is torn from his young bride and sent to a research station in orbit around Jupiter, to spy on the scientists who work there. Their work may lead to the discovery of higher life forms in the Jovian system-with implications the New Morality doesn't like at all.</p><p>What Grant's would-be controllers don't know is that his loyalty to science may be greater than his desire for a quiet life. But that loyalty will be tested in a mission as dangerous as any ever undertaken-a mission to the middle reaches of Jupiter's endless atmosphere, a place where hydrogen flows as a liquid, and cyclones larger than planets rage for centuries at a time.</p><p>What lurks there is more than anyone has counted on...and stranger than anyone could possibly have imagined.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Recalls the work of Heinlein in his Destination Moon mode, or Hal Clement in any number of stories: a day-after-tomorrow tale crafted with near-journalistic purity...It's a difficult, demanding mode to pursue, and not many choose to nowadays. But Bova does it magnificently." --<i>Paul Di Filippo, Scifi.com</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Ben Bova</b> is the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including <i>Able One</i>, <i>Leviathans of Jupiter</i> and the Grand Tour novels, including <i>Titan</i>, winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and in 2008 he won the Robert A. Heinlein Award "for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature." He is President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, and a former editor of <i>Analog</i> and former fiction editor of <i>Omni</i>. As an editor, he won science fiction's Hugo Award six times. Dr. Bova's writings have predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), electronic book publishing, and much more. He lives in Florida.</p>
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