{"product_id":"farside-paperback-1","title":"Farside - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBen Bova\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix-time Hugo-Award winner Ben Bova presents \u003ci\u003eFarside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFarside, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTelescopes 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 Earth, and if it bears life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFarside will include the largest optical telescope in the solar system as well as a vast array of radio antennas, the most sensitive radio telescope possible, insulated from the interference of Earth's radio chatter by a thousand kilometers of the Moon's solid body. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBuilding the Farside observatory is a complex, often dangerous task. On the airless surface of the Moon, under constant bombardment of hard radiation and infalling micrometeoroids, builders must work in cumbersome spacesuits and use robotic machines as much as possible. Breakdowns--mechanical and emotional--are commonplace. Accidents happen, some of them fatal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat they find stuns everyone, and the human race will never be the same. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBova's latest novel is one of his best, and a classic use of the old sf theme of humanity reaching out for immortality among the stars.--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) on \u003ci\u003eFarside\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Bova\u003c\/b\u003e (1932-2020) was the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including \u003ci\u003eAble One, Transhuman, Orion\u003c\/i\u003e, the Star Quest Trilogy, and the Grand Tour novels, including \u003ci\u003eTitan\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDr. Bova was President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, and a former editor of \u003ci\u003eAnalog\u003c\/i\u003e and former fiction editor of \u003ci\u003eOmni\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 31, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42739195215935,"sku":"9781250295071","price":22.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/eeb838fe35c85463388e9a41fd79db1b.webp?v=1765155839","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/farside-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}