The Rock Rats

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Visionary

space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho

Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut

out for her. 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. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho-and,

most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs's

wife.

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. Before it ends, many will die-and many will achieve

more than they ever dreamed was possible.

About the Author

Ben Bova (1932-2020) was the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including Able One, Transhuman, Orion, the Star Quest Trilogy, and the Grand Tour novels, including Titan, winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. His many honors include the Isaac Asimov Memorial Award in 1996, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award “for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature” in 2008.

Dr. Bova was President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, and a former editor of Analog and former fiction editor of Omni. As an editor, he won science fiction’s Hugo Award six times. His writings predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), electronic book publishing, and much more.

In addition to his literary achievements, Bova worked for Project Vanguard, America’s first artificial satellite program, and for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, the company that created the heat shields for Apollo 11, helping the NASA astronauts land on the moon. He also taught science fiction at Harvard University and at New York City’s Hayden Planetarium and worked with such filmmakers as George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry.

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Book Details

Imprint: Tor Books

Genre: Science Fiction

ISBN: 9781429958226

Page Count: 384

On Sale:

April 6, 2002

Books By Ben Bova