BEN BOVA

Ten thousand men and women, exiled by the restrictive governments of Earth, are riding a man-made habitat to the planet Saturn. They form a volatile community. Some are innocents like Holly Lane, or Manuel Gaeta. Others are idealists like Edouard Urbain, or Kris Cardenas and Nadia Wunderly. And some have much more dangerous...

The story of the men and women who risk everything to mine the riches of the asteroids began in The Precipice and continued in The Rock Rats. It comes to its climax in The Silent War Martin Humphries, wealthy, ruthless and obsessed, has exiled his rival Lars Fuchs to the depths of space and taken Fuchs' wife, Amanda Cunningham, for his own. No...

The appearance in the solar system of a mysterious spaceship prompts the Soviets and Americans to launch a joint rendezvous mission, but a terrorist bomb nearly destroys the craft, leaving only American astronaut, Dr. Keith Stoner, in suspended animation in the depths of space.