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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

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Grand tour series excellent stories

Another great installment for the grand tour series. Loved the characters and having more information for the Moon life stories

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Just finished both books of Bova's NANO series.

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.

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