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The Return

Book IV of Voyagers

Voyagers (Volume 4)

Author: Ben Bova

The Return

The Return

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From the six-time Hugo Award-winning author of the Voyagers series comes the next installment, book four, Ben Bova's The Return

In the 1980s, an alien starship...

Page Count
464
On Sale
08/03/2010

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From the six-time Hugo Award-winning author of the Voyagers series comes the next installment, book four, Ben Bova's The Return

In the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically frozen. After his body was eventually returned to Earth and revived, Stoner discovered that he had acquired alien powers. Using these new powers, he built a new starship and left Earth.

Now, after more than a century of exploring the stars, Keith Stoner returns to find that the world he has come back to does not match the one he left. The planet is suffering the consequences of disastrous greenhouse flooding. Most nations have been taken over by ultraconservative religion-based governments, such as the New Morality in the United States. With population ballooning and resources running out, Earth is heading for nuclear war. Stoner, the star voyager, wants to save Earth's people. But first he must save himself from the frightened and ambitious zealots who want to destroy this stranger—and the terrifying message he brings from the stars.

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Imprint Publisher

Tor Books

ISBN

9781429968874

In The News

“Hard-charging. . . . Ambitiously juggling elements of space opera, western, and Sophoclean drama, Bova keeps the pages turning.” —Publishers Weekly on The Rock Rats

“Vintage Bova.” —Booklist on The Silent War

“Fast-paced action for fans of hard-core SF adventure.” —Library Journal on Voyagers III

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The Return

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