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1) Farside
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
367 p.
Language
English
Description
SFarside, 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 thirty light-years away. Now the race is on to get pictures of that distant world, photographs and spectra that will show whether or not the planet is truly like...
Author
Series
Jake Ross volume 4
Publisher
Caezik SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's time to start the colonizing the solar system. Ex-astronaut, current space advisor, and all-out trouble shooter for the President, Jake Ross, is determined to make it happen. And what better way to return to America's glory than by returning to the moon and setting up a permanent moon-base which can then serve as the launching pad for Mars and beyond. But as usual, political intrigue and conflicting priorities are threatening the whole program....
4) Uranus
Author
Series
Outer planets trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A religious idealist, a billionaire financier, and a prestigious scientist battle for control over a space mission to search for life on Uranus.
5) Survival
Author
Series
Star quest trilogy volume Book 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a human team is sent to scout a few hundred light-years in front of the death wave, it encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences. These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons and have survived earlier 'death waves,' gamma-ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm them, and utterly uninterested in...
6) Power play
Author
Series
Jake Ross volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
352 p.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jake Ross, a university astronomer, wants nothing more than to teach a few classes each semester and continue his research. Instead, he finds himself aggressively recruited to be the science advisor to Frank Tomlinson, an ambitious politician with his eye on the US Senate. Tomlinson is in need of an edge that will allow him to defeat his opponent at the polls, and Dr. Ross can contribute just that: MHD. MHD, or magnetohydrodynamics, is a new innovation...
Author
Series
Star Quest volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English