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    <body><![CDATA[If there is one thing that I have come to expect of Ben Bova it is that he can take any fantastically unbelievable idea and make it so real that you actually think that it could happen. This is the case with Venus.<br/>Van Humphries is the last living son of Martin Humphries, having outlived his br...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43255590">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(june 2004) i can't believe i actually finished this. it was horribly written, and i barely cared about the hysterical characters--particularly the snivelling protagonist--to bother to turn the pages. still, the science (fiction) kept me reading til the lurid and quite predictable, comic book ending...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4847464">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't realize it when I started, but <em>Venus</em> is actually one of an extended series by Ben Bova.  This particular installation follows the weak, ineffective, and largely unlikable Van Humphries, son of a powerful billionaire who can't stand his younger son.  His older son Alex, Van's beloved brother...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25094377">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic sci-fi, you get a nice lot plot, so-so characters but mostly you get to learn somethings you may not have known before, in this case regarding the planet Venus. <br/><br/>This takes place about 50 years in the future, so the technology looks familiear to us but still allows the author room...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47032812">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[With all the things he is not, Van, training to deal with it. You who are in opposition against him fight him. That is what he muses in his high adventure. Or a round trip to Venus, at the top of its clouds and certainly its secrets, and a kind of story that tell what is not left to wonder about all...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31225350">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I almost didn't finish this one. In fact, I only stuck with it because I'd paid for a used copy.  It just isn't a very good book.  The main character is a typical protagonist, except the fact that he has a debilitating illness; there's your typical skeptical, asshole character, a villain, a love int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31173126">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not everyone's cup of tea...quite pulpy science fiction, but I've become a sucker for Bova's &quot;Grand Tour&quot; series, as I attempt to write a sermon-series on the planets and the mythology that surrounds their names.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the grand tour of the universe to Earth's sister planet. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love space opera. Pure brain candy!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  One of the few sci-fi books I have actually enjoyed – a little bit slow to start but then I couldn’t put it down once it got going.  Looking forward to the sequel (if there is one - I'll go in search of now).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a little nervous starting this book because the first sci-fi novel I read, I didn't really like it. But this one turned out to be more enjoyable than I thought. I liked why Van in the first place (to get his money back), but then while orbiting Venus, he realizes that he went for another reaso...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36937997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If space opera is melodramatic science fiction on a grand scale, then I guess this could be classified as a space aria.  The story progresses nicely with just enough technical detail thrown in to add to the ambiance without bogging down the action.  I can't agree with the reviewer who said it was &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24745682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably my favorite Ben Bova book.  This is one of his smaller works and the first book of his I ever read.  The characters are wonderfully crafted.  I have read many books of his to learn more about these characters.  I have gone back and reread it a few times after knowing more about the characte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71163809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mostly Fiction <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mostlyfiction.com/scifi/bova.htm#venus" title="http://mostlyfiction.com/scifi/bova.htm#venus">http://mostlyfiction.com/scifi/bova.htm#...</a> for full review. <br/><br/>Interview with Ben Bova at Science Fiction and Other ODDysseys: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sciencefictionmusings.blogspot.com/2008/10/interview-with-ben-bova.html" title="http://sciencefictionmusings.blogspot.com/2008/10/interview-with-ben-bova.html">http://sciencefictionmusings.blogspot.co...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another in the Mars book Series.  This one was not nearly as good as the others.  Somewhat disappointed. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[nothing special here. Unless you're a big Bova fan skip it]]></body>
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