Venus
Ben Bova
Publisher: Tor Books
Summary
A deadly race unfolds on the hostile planet in this science fiction adventure by the six-time Hugo Award–winning author. The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered with clouds of sulfuric acid. The atmosphere is a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and poisonous gases. This is where Van Humphries must go. Or die trying. His older brother perished in the first attempt to land a man on Venus, years before, and his father had always hated Van for surviving when his brother died. Now his father is offering a ten-billion-dollar prize to the first person to land on Venus and return his oldest son’s remains. To everyone’s surprise, Van takes up the offer. But what Van Humphries will find on Venus will change everything—our understanding of Venus, of global warming on Earth, and his knowledge of who he is. . . . Praise for Venus “Venus scorches.” —Kansas City Star “Bova proves himself equal to the task of showing how adversity can temper character in unforeseen ways.” —The New York Times “The author’s excellence at combining hard science with believable characters and an attention-grabbing plot makes him one of the genre’s most accessible and entertaining storytellers.” —Library Journal
Available since: 05/15/2001.
Print length: 420 pages.
