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Award-winning author Ben Bova brings us New Earth, his latest tale of science fiction in his Grand Tour series.
The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth.
All of the explorers understand that they are essentially on a one-way mission. The trip takes eighty years each way, so even if they are able to get back to Earth, nearly 200 years will have elapsed. They will have aged only a dozen years thanks to cryonic suspension, but their friends and family will be gone and the very society that they once knew will have changed beyond recognition. The explorers are going into exile, and they know it. They are on this mission not because they were the best available, but because they were expendable.
Upon landing on the planet they discover something unexpected: New Earth is inhabited by a small group of intelligent creatures who look very much like human beings.
Who are these people? Are they native to this world, or invaders from elsewhere?
While they may seem inordinately friendly to the human explorers, what are their real motivations? What do they want?
Moreover, the scientists begin to realize that this planet cannot possibly be natural. They face a startling and nearly unthinkable question: Could New Earth be an artifact?
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
- Sales Rank: #211549 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-07-16
- Released on: 2013-07-16
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
The discovery of an Earthlike planet—oxygen atmosphere and oceans of liquid water—inevitably generates an expedition to that planet. But it will take the explorers 80 years each way. Cryonic suspension will let them survive the round-trip with only 20-odd years of aging, but they will return to Earth some 200 years after they left. Their expedition is really an exile, but some of Earth’s best and brightest volunteer. They even survive the trip to the newly discovered planet, Sirius C. But they find some unexpected anomalies on the otherwise highly congenial new Earth. It has a small native population of remarkably humanoid intelligent beings. And they are not only humanoid, but they are also extremely friendly and informative. Between the natives and their own discoveries, the explorers begin to suspect that Sirius C is an artifact. But if so, who made it? And when will we find out? A more than readable combination of scientific puzzle and alien-contact story, New Earth is Bova at the top of his form. --Roland Green
Review
“Bova proves himself equal to the task of showing how adversity can temper character in unforeseen ways.” ―The New York Times
“Bova gets better and better, combining plausible science with increasingly complex fiction.” ―Daily News (Los Angeles)
“[Bova'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
About the Author
BEN BOVA is a six-time winner of the Hugo Award, a former editor of Analog, former editorial director of Omni, and a past president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America. Bova is the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, most recently Power Play, Farside, and New Earth. He lives in Florida.
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46 of 53 people found the following review helpful.
Bova called this one in...
By Paul Alex Prince III
As a long time reader of Bova, I expected better. While the premise of the story is intriguing, I found Bova's characters to be shallow contrivances, designed to create easy conflicts and even easier resolutions. They were lazily written and entirely unbelievable as Earth's first explorers to another star system. And as I didn't believe in the characters, and found their motivations and intentions to be paper-thin contrivances, I certainly didn't care about what they did or what happened to them. None of it rang true on any level.
While I forced myself to finish the book, I spent most of the time shaking my head at the implausible behaviors and clunky dialogue of these cardboard characters.
Had someone handed me this book without the author's name, I would have guessed it was a debut novel from a young writer with some talent but little training or experience, and I certainly wouldn't have passed it along to anyone else.
26 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
Disappointing
By D. Allen
I've been a Ben Bova fan for a long, long time. While he's had a few clunkers in his time none come close to being as bad as this novel.
The three main characters are completely one-dimensional. We get the cookie cutter leader of the aliens who knows more than he is saying, the "leader" of the expedition with the painful past who doesn't actually do much leading in the novel because he's too busy knocking boots with, wait for it, the perfect native girl. The rest of the supporting cast (the scientists on this "scientific expedition") are so completely forgettable that the author feels it necessary to not-so-subtly remind us of their specialty every time that they're in a scene, "hey, why don't you go into the city and meet with this planet's astrophysicists to learn from them?", "hey, go meet with this planet's geologists and see if you can get some information from them", "you know, if you were to spend some time with this planet's biologists you could really learn a thing or two".
As for plot, ooooh, the bureaucrat in a team of scientists falls in love with the perfect native girl and immediately goes native. How very "dances with wolves". It takes 2/3rds of the novel for these "experts" to figure out that the planet has been terraformed although its been beating them in the face since they entered orbit. Also, the novel is full of redundant dialog. "She's as human as any of us", "this is the greatest scientific discovery in the history of mankind and you want to tuck your tails between your legs and run?", "he'll tell us what we need to know. we just need to ask the right questions", "her smile lit up the room [city, forest, planet, universe, whatever]", "isn't it great that we can eat food that's almost but not quite like food on Earth?", and the infamous "I'm going into the city". Oh yes, there's plenty of going into the city. Will he walk into the city? Will he drive into the city? Will he stay in the room provided once in the city or will he go back to the camp at the end of the day? Exactly how big is his cubical in the tent at camp? Did the size change in the four or five times its mentioned? Oh, the partitions are two meters tall? (told at least three times) Gripping.
Finally we get the hamfisted "global warming is bad mmmkay?" over, and over, and over, and over. "Damn our ancestors for not doing anything about global warming until it was too late!".
The plot finally starts to get interesting in the last 20 pages but then of course the story ends.
If this novel was by a self-published first time author my review would be something like "this story has potential but needs some scrubbing by a good editor". However, someone who has been in the game as long as Mr Bova should know better.
26 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
New Yawn
By Amazon Customer
I've been a Bova fan for years, and eagerly consumed just about every Grand Tour book. I had high hopes that "New Earth" would be a much better effort than the preceding novel, "Farside"(easily the worst Bova book, if not the most boring and tripe filled sci-fi novel I've ever read). He manages to succeed in laying out an intriguing mystery in "New Earth"...for about 100 pages. Unfortunately, it's book-ended by a slow start and baffling conclusion.
Bova has always been really lazy with character development. The personalities of his characters are either completely one-dimensional or inconsequential. Still, he manages to pull off good stories with enough of the hard stuff to keep fans like me happy. But, it seems now he is content to slack off on nearly every aspect of story and character development. There is almost no conflict or resolution beyond the very shallow dramas created by his paper cutout characters...no meat to any of it. I mean, the climax of this book occurs when a character is forced to change his mind about a belief. Really? And, what's the deal with the regular human technology? Apparently, two hundred years from now we can upload our memories to a computer but all communications are handled by Nokia. WTF. Lastly, what is Bova's fascination with eating? Literally, every five pages sets a scenario of "let's talk about what just happened over breakfast/dinner/brunch." And, stop repeating things we already know ad-nauseum like the distance between Sirius C or Meek's distrust of aliens. We get it.
I don't know what to make of these latest efforts by Mr. Bova. Either he needs a new editor or maybe some real soul searching on his current methods of writing. I love his other books, and I've re-read some of them a number of times. I can't see reading any more of his new work at this point.
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