Power Failure, Ben Bova
Power Failure, Ben Bova
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Power Failure

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 8 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/09/2018

Synopsis

Award-winning writer Ben Bova returns with another tense political thriller starring Jake Ross, science advisor to Senator Frank Tomlinson, as they continue their complex power maneuvers they began in Power Play and Power Surge.Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he’s learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal, riding in the wake of Frank Tomlinson. But now Tomlinson has decided to shoot for the moon. If they win, they get it all. If they lose, the game is over for Jake Ross.The Power trilogy combines the political thriller with nuts-and-bolts near future science fiction. Bova’s vision of a future powered by solar satellite transmission is tantalizingly within reach.

About Ben Bova

Ben Bova (1932–2020), American author of more than one hundred books of science fact and fiction, was awarded posthumously the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. His work earned six Hugo Awards. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and his novel Titan won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel of 2006. In his early career, he was a technical editor for Project Vanguard, the United States’s first effort to launch a satellite into space in 1958. He then was a science writer for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, which built the heat shields for the Apollo 11 module. He held the position of president emeritus of the National Space Society and served as president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

About Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom, CBE, is an English film and stage actress, known for leading roles in plays such as Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day’s Journey into Night, along with nearly sixty films and countless television roles, during a career spanning over six decades. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen’s birthday honors for services to drama.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mae on May 07, 2024

This story is supposed to be Science Fiction as Ben Bova is known for his work in science fact and fiction. I did not think there was much science fiction in this story. There was certainly a lot of fiction as he wants me to believe that there are credible people in politics. Anyway the story is abo......more

Goodreads review by Casey on September 22, 2018

This is a political thriller book with a dash of science ficition, which has been the forte of the author in the past. The book is the third in the Jake Ross series, but it does well as a stand alone novel. I had not read the first two books, but had not problem following the storyline or the charac......more

Goodreads review by Michael on May 27, 2019

Jake Ross devised the energy plan that got Frank Tomlinson elected to the Senate. He's now directed to come up with a plan that will get Tomlinson into the White House. He decides that we'll return to the moon, start a lunar mining colony and build satellites that will transmit solar energy back to......more

Goodreads review by James on September 27, 2019

The third book finished this series like it started. It was nothing special. Very light on the science fiction. It was a very political book and also enlightening as to exactly how much government would be good government. We like what government does for us but we also want the freedom from governm......more

Goodreads review by Porter on November 30, 2018

This book failed to deliver the science in science-fiction. With Ben Bova’s great accomplishments as a writer, I expected a much better story from POWER FAILURE than it turned out to be after I picked this book out on a whim at my public library. I have never read any of Mr. Bova’s books before. The s......more

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