The Aftermath, Ben Bova
The Aftermath, Ben Bova
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The Aftermath
Book Four of the Asteroid Wars

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Hoye

Unabridged: 11 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2007

Synopsis

Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in The Aftermath.

In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the ore-carrier Syracuse. When the Syracuse stumbles into the middle of a military attack on the habitat Chrysalis, Victor flees in a control pod to draw the attacker's attention away from his family. Now, as his wife and children plunge into the far deeps of space, Victor has been rescued by the seductive Cheena Madagascar. He must do her bidding if he's to have a prayer of ever seeing his family again.

Elverda Apacheta, the solar system's greatest sculptor, and the cyborg Dorn, the ruthless military commander responsible for the attack on Chrysalis, are linked by their joint discovery of an alien artifact. Similarly transformed by the artifact's mysterious powers, Apacheta and Dorn now prowl the Belt, determined to find the bodies of the many victims of Harbin's atrocities so that they can be given proper burials. Kao Yuan is the captain of Viking who's determined to kill Dorn and Elverda because they know too much about the artifact and its power. But Viking's second-in-command appears to have the real power on board ship. When Viking catches up to Apacheta and Dorn, their confrontation begins a series of events involving them, the Zacharius family, and the transformation of the human solar system…

About Ben Bova

Ben Bova (1932-2020) was the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including Able One, Transhuman, Orion, the Star Quest Trilogy, and the Grand Tour novels, including Titan, winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. His many honors include the Isaac Asimov Memorial Award in 1996, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award “for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature” in 2008.Dr. Bova was President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, and a former editor of Analog and former fiction editor of Omni. As an editor, he won science fiction’s Hugo Award six times. His writings predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), electronic book publishing, and much more.In addition to his literary achievements, Bova worked for Project Vanguard, America’s first artificial satellite program, and for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, the company that created the heat shields for Apollo 11, helping the NASA astronauts land on the moon. He also taught science fiction at Harvard University and at New York City’s Hayden Planetarium and worked with such filmmakers as George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry.

About Emily Janice Card

Emily Janice Card has read a number of audiobooks, including Ben Bova's The Aftermath, Orson Scott Card's Ender in Exile, Lisa Gardner's The Neighbor, and several titles by Kimberly Willis Holt. Card  is an actor, singer, and writer from North Carolina.  On screen, she's appeared in The Delivery.  Her stage work includes The Importance of Being Earnest, Bye Bye Birdie, The Fantasticks, and Once Upon a Mattress.  She also adapted and starred in the play A Sepulcher of Songs, based on a short story by her father, Orson Scott Card.

About Gabrielle de Cuir

Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott Card’s Ender novels, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie Angier’s Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Earphones Award.  She lives in Los Angeles where she also directs theatre and presently has several projects in various stages of development for film.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director and producer. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award. He received AudioFile’s award for 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Along with a cast of other narrators, Rudnicki has read a number of Orson Scott Card's best-selling science fiction novels. He worked extensively with many other science fiction authors, including David Weber and Ben Bova. In reviewing the twentieth anniversary edition audiobook of Card’s Ender's Game, Publishers Weekly stated, "Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender's inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take." Rudnicki is also a stage actor and director.

About Stephen Hoye

Stephen Hoye is an Audie Award and Earphones Award winner for the Best Voice in Biography and History.  His audiobook career includes reading dozens of audiobooks, including James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia, Michael Lewis’s The Blind Side, Carl Hiaasen's Skinny Dip, and Ben Bova's The Aftermath.   Hoye trained at Boston University and The Guildhall in London. Hoye has worked as an actor for more than 30 years, with roles in films such as The Delivery, Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, Little Shop of Horrors, and Spies Like Us.  On television, he's been seen in The Return of Shelley, Drop the Dead Donkey, and Crossroads.  He's also appeared on stage in Henry V and Love's Labours Lost, both at the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park, London.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Harry on 2008-06-27 21:16:16

Great idea, solid story line, good ending, I read it almost straight through

Goodreads review by AndrewP on April 24, 2018

This book is a bit of an odd one. It's supposed to be book 4 of the Asteroid Wars sub series, but it's more like a stand alone fill in. The background fit's in with the main story in the series, but it's just an incidental incident with all new characters. It was okay overall, but some of the answer......more

Goodreads review by JP on August 01, 2019

As a standalone story, The Aftermath would have been pretty good. It's an interesting story from a sci-fi take: a family on a space ship out in the belt, hauling ore. They're attacked. One member escapes back to the belt and the rest are sent out on a long orbit with a broken ship, years before they......more

Goodreads review by Andy on November 21, 2017

The fourth book in the Asteroid Wars picks up after the third, where the Zacharias family ends up fighting for their lives after their ship, the Syracuse, is attacked by Dorn, who has changed after his exposure to an artifact found in the third book. The mother and her two kids are left stranded on......more

Goodreads review by Durval on February 26, 2019

Interesting continuation for the Asteroid Wars 'mini arch', it basically jumps off the at-the-time apparently non-sensical first/last chapters of the previous book ("The Silent War",The Asteroid Wars #3) in an entirely new direction. It does that by basically discarding almost every character from t......more

Goodreads review by Tommi on January 30, 2022

Asteroid wars-nelikko on kummallinen sotku muuten Ben Bovan varsin pätevässä Grand Tour-sarjassa. Asteroid Warsissa Bovan heikkoudet juonen kehityksessä ja yksiulotteisissa henkilöhahmoissa korostuvat syystä tai toisesta. Vaikka muuten voin Grand Touria suositella, suosittelen myös samalla jättämään......more

Quotes

“Immensely entertaining. A crackling read.” —SFX on The Precipice

“Bova gets better and better, combining plausible science with increasingly complex fiction.” —Los Angeles Daily News on Venus

“Clearly read by multiple narrators (Janice Card and others), this book provides the listener with a varied atmosphere that counters the sometimes perplexing yet fast-paced turn of events. Fans of Bova will especially appreciate this space thriller.” —The Library Journal

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