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  <title><![CDATA[Mercury: Planet Novel #4 (The Grand Tour)]]></title>
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  <default-description>The planet closest to our Sun, Mercury is a rocky, barren, heat-scorched world. But there are those who hope to find wealth in its desolation. Saito Yamagata thinks Mercury's position makes it an ideal place to generate power to propel starships into deep space. Astrobiologist Victor Molina thinks the water at Mercury's poles may harbor evidence of life. Bishop Elliot Danvers has been sent by the Earth-based 'New Morality' to keep close tabs on Molina.But all three of these men are blissfully unaware of their shared history, and of how it connects to the collapse of Mance Bracknell's geosynchronous space elevator a generation ago. Now they're about to find out, because Mance is determined to have his revenge...</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ben Bova - who has been writing science fiction for more than 40 years, including books such as Moonrise and Titan – continues his Grand Tour series about the colonization of the solar system with Mercury. The story begins in the late 21st century as three characters – Astrobiologist Victor Moli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70761371">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Mercury&quot; is a story about revenge -- what happens when someone is horribly wronged, and how he sets out to get back on the people who wronged him. The end contains a nice twist, in that Bracknell's revenge lands on the wrong person, Yamagata senior rather than Yamagata junior. I don't und...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52823061">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first Ben Bova I have read. It was great! Fast-paced and really well-written. An interesting science fiction novel with a great plot. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quick sci-fi read. Liked the way he treated the after effects of global warming (the flooding, the dislocation of coastal peoples, the resulting government repression, etc.) pretty matter-of-factly. Humankind deals with it, but years and years later society still has to deal with the problems.  Stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2284189">more...</a>]]></body>
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