Jupiter

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Macmillan + ORM, Jan 6, 2001 - Fiction - 416 pages

The acclaimed author of Venus takes readers on a voyage into Jupiter's strange and terrifying atmosphere in this "unique and enticing" hard sci-fi novel ( Publishers Weekly ).

Grant Archer only wanted to study astrophysics. But the forces of the "New Morality," the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run twenty-first-century America, have other plans for him. Torn away from his young bride, Grant is sent to a research station orbiting Jupiter, tasked with spying on his fellow scientists. 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 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 on a dangerous mission to the middle reaches of Jupiter's atmosphere. In a place where liquid hydrogen flows freely and planet-sized cyclones rage, something even more horrifying is about to be discovered . . .

 

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Contents

Section 1
5
Section 2
8
Section 3
17
Section 4
22
Section 5
33
Section 6
46
Section 7
76
Section 8
80
Section 21
199
Section 22
209
Section 23
215
Section 24
221
Section 25
241
Section 26
250
Section 27
267
Section 28
301

Section 9
93
Section 10
105
Section 11
111
Section 12
120
Section 13
128
Section 14
138
Section 15
144
Section 16
147
Section 17
163
Section 18
170
Section 19
185
Section 20
195
Section 29
313
Section 30
325
Section 31
335
Section 32
341
Section 33
346
Section 34
358
Section 35
359
Section 36
369
Section 37
376
Section 38
383
Section 39
393
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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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