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VENUS
BEN BOVA

ADVENTURE AND DISCOVERY IN THE CLASSIC SF MODE,
FROM THE MULTIPLE HUGO AWARD-WINNER, AND
BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MARS!

“Bova gets better and better, combining plausible science with
increasingly complex fiction.”
—Los Angeles Daily News

Ben Bova, the multiple Hugo Award-winning author of innumerable classic science fiction novels, returns with VENUS (Tor Books; April 2000; $24.95), an adventure about Earth’s beautiful and deadly sister planet.

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 that it can crush spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans, the sky is perpetually covered with clouds of sulfuric acid, and the atmosphere is a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and poisonous gasses.

This is where Van Humphries must go, or die trying.

Late in the 21st century, Van is the sickly, fearful second son of a tyrannical corporate tycoon. His older brother died years before in the first attempt to land a man on Venus, and their father had always hated Van for surviving when his brother had died. Now, his father is offering a ten billion dollar prize to the first person to land on Venus and return with his older son’s remains.

To everyone’s surprise, Van takes the offer. A socialite who has never done anything more strenuous than star on Princeton’s debate team, he will organize a second attempt to land on Venus’s ghastly surface, putting his own life at great risk. Meanwhile, another expedition sets forth to claim the prize—one organized in secret by the man Van’s father fears most, the previous husband of his former wife, the woman who died giving birth to Van.

What Van Humphries will find on Venus will change everything—our understanding of the planet, of global warming on Earth, and Van’s own knowledge of who he is.

Click here to see an interview with Ben Bova

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