Voyagers II: The Alien Within

by Ben Bova

Book Overview

Eighteen years ago, astronaut Keith Stoner had been the American member of a joint U.S.Soviet mission to capture an alien ship that had entered the solar system. It was the greatest adventure in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812532066
• ISBN13: 9780812532067
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

jacket summary

from the back cover of the January 1987 TOR paperback edition cover art by Boris Vallejo When Keith Stoner awoke, he found himself in a world changed almost beyond recognition. Eighteen years before, Stoner had been the American member of a joint US-Soviet mission to capture an alien ship, which had entered the solar system. It was the greatest adventure in the history of Earth-but disaster struck when a bomb placed on the Soviet craft forced its recall. Stoner refused to allow such a gift to escape humankind, and removing his spacesuit within the strange ship, fell into suspended animation. Jo Camerata, the ambitious young student who fell in love with Stoner, is now head of Vanguard Industries. Jo's dogged determination has forced the recovery of the alien ship, and now her company is in control of the vast new technology and the fortune it reaps-and in control of Keith Stoner. What Camerata doesn't know, however, is that someone else has been awake; someone who dwells within Stoner's mind. The alien presence that has kept Stoner alive all these years is now free, and intends to explore our world. And will let nothing stand in its way.

Foresight

I read this book when i was still in High School a number of years ago, but still the distinctness of the book lingers on in my memory. I enjoyed Sci-Fi before i read this book, and after? Well writing reviews and looking every where for Ben Bova. I enjoyed the book because it focused not only on what could be, what what in actual fact is. The Vanguard coorporation if my memory serves, reflects metaphorically with the way our world is now. It moved me from being being "a simple fish in the waters of life" to being aware of my environment, being aware that there is more than what meets the eye. The technology described in the book was, to me, fantastic, so fantastic that it tantalised the senses and made me want to go out and study science and make that technology possible. I have in my life only read three Ben Bova book, not by any chance by choice, but simply because where i am they are hard to find. Orion, another throughly enjoyable book, shares the same mystisism with Voyager 11, and also displays our Theological dispositions. Voyager 11, displayed the Alien that is within our very midst and the human potential that has only just begun to be tapped. Definitely one of the best books i have ever read. I question and because i cannot find the answer, i search. Thanks Ben..