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      Survival

      by Ben Bova
      Published
      Jan 2018
      Main Genre
      Science Fiction Sci-Fi
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      352
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      Series
      Star Quest Trilogy Book 3
      Also Appears In
      The Grand Tour Book 24

      About This Book

      Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels. In Surivival, a human team sent to scout a few hundred lightyears in front of the death wave 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 helping to save other civilizations, organic or machine.

      But now that the humans have discovered them, they refuse to allow them to leave their planet, reasoning that other humans will inevitably follow if they learn of their existence.

      Series Placement

      Book 3
      🔴 Must Read in Order
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      Also Appears In
      The Grand Tour
      Book 24
      🟡 Mostly Standalone

      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      Speculative Fiction

      Subgenres

      Action Adventure Science Fiction

      Characters & Occupations

      Aliens

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