Able One - Hardcover

Bova, Ben

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486 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765323869 ISBN 13: 9780765323866

Publisher: Tor Books, 2010

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When communications satellites are destroyed by a rouge North Korean faction that is also plotting a thermonuclear attack, the fate of the world rests in the untested technology and crew of a laser-enabled 747 designed to eliminate missiles in flight. By the Hugo Award-winning author of The Green Trap.

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Review:

"A well-above-average page-turner."--"Booklist"

"Bova proves himself equal to the task of showing how adversity can temper character in unforeseen ways.""--The New York Times"

Bova proves himself equal to the task of showing how adversity can temper character in unforeseen ways. "The New York Times"

Bova gets better and better, combining plausible science with increasingly complex fiction. "Daily News (Los Angeles)"

A cautionary but hopeful thriller . . . Modern twists and a genuinely surprising ending. "Publishers Weekly on The Green Trap"

Bova brings his usual imaginative plotting and attention to detail to this contemporary thriller, and fans of the author, as well as those of Michael Crichton-style science thrillers, should be well pleased. "Booklist on The Green Trap"

Ben Bova's latest near-future SF thriller supplies a suspenseful ride and plenty of high-tech hardware as it builds to a climactic confrontation over Washington, D.C. "Publishers Weekly on Powersat""

"Bova proves himself equal to the task of showing how adversity can temper character in unforeseen ways." --The New York Times

"Bova gets better and better, combining plausible science with increasingly complex fiction." --Daily News (Los Angeles)

"A cautionary but hopeful thriller . . . Modern twists and a genuinely surprising ending." --Publishers Weekly on The Green Trap

"Bova brings his usual imaginative plotting and attention to detail to this contemporary thriller, and fans of the author, as well as those of Michael Crichton-style science thrillers, should be well pleased." --Booklist on The Green Trap

"Ben Bova's latest near-future SF thriller supplies a suspenseful ride and plenty of high-tech hardware as it builds to a climactic confrontation over Washington, D.C." --Publishers Weekly on Powersat

About the Author:

Ben Bova is the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including Able One, Leviathans of Jupiter and the Grand Tour novels, including Titan, winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and in 2008 he won the Robert A. Heinlein Award "for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature." He is 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. Dr. Bova’s writings have predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), electronic book publishing, and much more. He lives in Florida.

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