Ben Bova - Saturn - 000.nfo
General Information
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Title: Saturn
Author: Ben Bova
Read By: Amanda Karr, Stefan Rudnicki & Cast
Copyright: 2003
Audiobook Copyright: 2003
Genre: SciFi
Publisher: Audio Renaissance
Series Name: Ben Bova's Grand Tour of the Universe
Position in Series: 03
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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ISBN: 1-59397-494-9
Media: CD
Number: 11
Source: Library
Condition: Good
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 111
Total Duration: 13:19:38
Total MP3 Size: 366.90
Parity Archive: 13 PAR2, 20%
Ripped By: A_S
Ripped With: Audiograbber
Encoded With: LAME 3.96
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
Normalize: MP3Gain, Radio 89dB
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Following the bestselling, widely-praised Venus and Jupiter, Ben Bova
offers a new adventure of solar system discovery like nothing previously
imagined.
In the bestselling novels Venus and Jupiter, Ben Bova dramatized the
latest discoveries about our own solar system in an epic tale of near-future
exploration and development. Now Bova turns his attention to one of
Earth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis
after crisis has given authoritarians the upper hand. Freedom and opportunity
exist in space, for those with the nerve and skill to take it. Now the
governments of Earth are encouraging many of their most incorrigible
dissidents to join a great ark, a one-way expedition to
Saturn, the ringed planet that baffled Galileo and has fascinated astronomers
ever since.
But humans will be human, so amidst the idealism permeating Space Habitat
Goddard are many individuals with long-term schemes, each awaiting their
From AudioFile
Veteran sci-fi scribe Bova nails our current society on the head with
this futuristic fable. Wisely cast with a skilled group of readers,
SATURN spins the tale of a space colony of government outcasts (translation,
those who don't agree with the powers that be) in the throes of establishing
their own government. Suffice it to say the forces behind the project
are part of a harsh new morality movement, an amalgam of McCarthyism,
fundamental Christianity, and the Inquisition. Explore a world in which
nanotechnology, cryogenics, virtually invisible surveillance techniques,
and fearless scientific investigation coexist with characters firmly
committed to either freedom or tyranny. Well acted, grippingly and wittily
Script Readable
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[INTERFACE]
Genre=SF
Language=English
Title="Venus"
Author="Ben Bova"
Narrator="Various"
Duration=13h20
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