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Venus (The Grand Tour, #18) by Ben Bova is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Venus (The Grand Tour, #18) about?
<p><P>The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered with clouds of sulfuric acid. The atmosphere is a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and poisonous gases.<P>This is where Van Humphries must go. Or die trying.<P>His older brother perished in the first attempt to land a man on Venus, years before, and his father had always hated Van for surviving when his brother died. Now his father is offering a ten billion dollar prize to the first person to land on Venus and return his oldest son's remains.<P>To everyone's surprise, Van takes up the offer. But what Van Humphries will find on Venus will change everything—our understanding of Venus, of global warming on Earth, and his knowledge of who he is.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In 1993 Bova took readers to Mars and himself onto bestseller lists. Last year's A Return to Mars also sold well. So a narrative about manned exploration of Venus seems an obvious step for this popular author, and Bova's new novel will indeed please his fans, as it offers
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ben Bova
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812579406
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.75 / 5 (2,187 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13