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Farside

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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Farside, the side of the moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder.

Telescopes on Earth have detected an Earth-sized planet circling a star some 30 light-years away. Now the race is on to get pictures of that distant world, photographs and spectra that show whether or not the planet is truly like Earth - and if it bears life. Farside observatory will have the largest optical telescope in the solar system as well as a vast array of radio antennas, the most sensitive radio telescope possible, insulated from the interference of Earth’s radio chatter by a thousand kilometers of the moon’s solid body.

Building Farside is a complex, often dangerous task. On the airless surface of the moon, under constant bombardment by hard radiation and in-falling micrometeoroids, builders must work in cumbersome spacesuits and use robotic machines as much as possible. Breakdowns - mechanical and emotional - are commonplace. Accidents happen, some of them fatal. But what they ultimately find will stun everyone, and the human race will never be the same.

©2013 Ben Bova (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc Adventure Fiction Science Fiction Space Exploration Space Opera Solar System Interstellar Astronomy Robotics

Critic Reviews

"I believe that by far the science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the science fiction world, and the world as a whole, is Ben Bova." (Ray Bradbury)
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Another great installment for the grand tour series. Loved the characters and having more information for the Moon life stories

Grand tour series excellent stories

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You can't call it "Moon Series"

...... and three books is misleading.

Every second word is NANO and every other word is a character name.

The plot could happen anywhere in the universe.

.... and book 2 is just an adaptation of Robert Heinleins "The moon is a harsh mistress."( A.I. nanobots and a Rebel faction seeks independence on the moon.)

like all Bova "series" one ok story, one adaptation, and one that has nothing to do with the previous 2.

I read Dan Randolf series, Mars and LOL Moon.

I'm done with Bova.

the other 20,000 "books" in the grand Tour will be the same boring formula.

Just finished both books of Bova's NANO series.

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