Neptune

The Outer Planets Trilogy, Book 2

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Hugo Award winner Ben Bova continues his grand tour of the human-settled solar system with a look at life in the outer planets, among the moons of Neptune.

In the future, humanity has spread throughout the solar system, on planets and moons once visited only by robots or explored at a distance by far-voyaging spacecraft. No matter how hostile or welcoming the environment, mankind has forged a path and found a home.

In the far reaches of the solar system, the outer planets - billions of miles from Earth, unknown for millennia - are being settled. Neptune, the ice giant, is swathed in clouds of hydrogen, helium, and methane and circled by rings of rock and dust. Three years ago, Ilona Magyr’s father, Miklos, disappeared while exploring the seas of Neptune. Everyone believes he is dead - crushed, frozen, or boiled alive in Neptune’s turbulent seas.

With legendary space explorer Derek Humbolt piloting her ship and planetary scientist Jan Meitner guiding the search, Ilona Magyr knows she will find her father - alive - on Neptune.

Her plans are irrevocably altered when she and her team discover the wreckage of an alien ship deep in Neptune’s ocean, a discovery that changes humanity’s understanding of its future...and its past.

©2021 Ben Bova (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

A good listen

Enjoyed the listen, the series has been very entertaining. I look forward to the next book.

A little choppy but solid

So this book is a bit choppy. It takes a few leaps without adequately explaining. Perhaps some of the leaps were explained in book 1?? I disagree with reviews saying its a feminist book. I believe that criticism is unwarranted. One of the characters is a misogynistic man and the story is told from the woman's perspective. She HAS to say how she feels.

Is it a great book, no. Is it a good book that had me wanting to read book 3, YES!!!

Reviews

I wish people wouldn’t be so critical, and expressing their views so hard that what they say that’s go with the book. My opinion.

Spoiler-free, but...

The poison. The poison for Kuzco. The poison formulated especially for Kuzco. The writer who is paid by the word. My only complaint, I promise. Loving the Grand Tour.

Fun interplanetary SciFi

Engaging story with interesting creatures within our solar system. Very vivid world building. Very much worth a listen.