«Né » en laboratoire sur David est parti vers la Terre, prêt à tout pour sauver la planète menacée, pour sauver ses frères humains.

Déjà la Terre est à feu et à sang, le Front Révolutionnaire des Peuples frappe partout, la navette spatiale de David est détournée… et il se retrouve dans une région perdue de l'Argentine.

Vers lui le hasard a conduit Bahjat, une jeune Irakienne, membre du F.R.P. Durant leur marche héroïque, une tendresse naît, qui n'empêche pas Bahjat de livrer David au chef de Front, à New York.

Maître de la Terre, le F.R.P. veut plus : conquérir source de toutes les énergies.

Dans le vaisseau qui fonce vers sa patrie, David, gardé en otage, imagine une riposte. D'une perfection technologique sans pitié. Bahjat périrait...

Il y va de la suivie espoir et avenir de l'homme !

En l’an 2008…

Loin de la Terre,  — riche et heureuse colonie spatiale, d’une technologie si avancée qu’un homme y a été « créé » en laboratoire : David Adams. Beauté d’archange, intelligence souveraine.

Pourtant cet être « invulnérable » s’est épris d’une journaliste de passage, la belle Evelyn Hall... et veut la retrouver.

Tout comme il veut, parce qu’il se sent solidaire des hommes, sauver la Terre qu’une guerre bactériologique menace et dont le Gouvernement mondial vacille…

Bravant l’interdiction de quitter David se lance dans le plus fantastique des voyages, passager clandestin d’astronefs en fusées, traqué de satellites en planètes…

N’arrivera-t-il pas trop tard sur une Terre où déjà règnent la violence et l’anarchie ? Londres brûle, on se bat dans New York…

In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the ore-carrier With his wife and two children he plies the Asteroid Belt, hauling whatever cargo can be found. When the stumbles into the middle of a military attack on the habitat Victor flees in a control pod to draw the attacker’s attention away from his family. Now, as his wife and children plunge into the far deeps of space, Victor has been rescued by the seductive Cheena Madagascar. He must do her bidding if he’s to have a prayer of ever seeing his family again.

Elverda Apacheta is the solar system’s greatest sculptor. The cyborg Dorn was formerly Dorik Harbin, the ruthless military commander responsible for the attack on . Their lives and destinies have been linked by their joint discovery of the alien artifact that had, earlier, profoundly affected industrialist Martin Humphries. Similarly transformed by the artifact’s mysterious powers, Apacheta and Dorn now prowl the Belt, determined to find the bodies of the many victims of Harbin’s atrocities so that they can be given proper burials.

Kao Yuan is the captain of , owned by Martin Humphries, who’s determined to kill Dorn and Elverda because they know too much about the artifact and its power over him. But ’s second-in-command, Tamara Vishinsky, appears to have the real power on board ship. When catches up to Apacheta and Dorn, their confrontation begins a series of events involving them, the Zacharius family, and Martin Humphries and his son in the transformation of the human solar system…

Ben Bova’s timeless hero returns . . . at the nexus of myth and history!

More than human, less than god, Orion has fought across time and space at the whims of his Creators, god-like beings from the future who toy with human history like spoiled children playing with dolls. From the frozen wastes of the Ice Age to far-flung interstellar empires, Orion has been both assassin and hero, all the while striving to be reunited with Anya, the ageless goddess who is his one true love.

Now Orion finds himself in Britain in the dark years after the Romans abandoned the island kingdom. Minor kings and warlords feud amongst themselves even as invading hordes of Saxons and Angles threaten to sweep over the land. There Orion befriends a young warrior named Arthur, who dreams of uniting his quarreling countrymen and driving the invaders from their lands. Along with a few brave comrades, Arthur hopes to the stem the tide of barbarism and create a new era of peace and prosperity.

But Orion’s vainglorious Creator, Aten the Golden One, has other plans for the timeline. Arthur’s noble ambitions interfere with Aten’s far-reaching schemes to reshape history to his own ends. He wants Arthur dead and forgotten---but Orion does not.

Defying his own creator, and risking his own immortal existence, Orion will battle the gods themselves to see that Arthur fulfills his destiny. But can even he save Arthur from the tragedy that awaits him?

Keith Stoner, ex-astronaut turned physicist, the signal that his research station is receiving from space is not random. Whatever it is, it’s real.

And it’s headed straight for Earth.

He’ll do anything to be the first man to go out to confront this enigma. Even lose the only woman he’s ever really loved.

And maybe start a world war.

The irrepressible Sam Gunn.

A hero without peer or scruples, Sam Gunn has a nose for trouble, money, and women--though not necessarily in that order. A man with the ego (and stature) of a Napoleon, the business acumen of a P. T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a teenage boy, Sam is the finest astronaut NASA ever trained…and dumped.

But more than money, more than women, Sam Gunn loves justice. (And he really *does* love money and women.) Whether he's suing the Pope, helping twin sisters entangled in the "virtual sex" trade, or on trial for his life on charges of interplanetary genocide, you can be sure of one thing: this is one space jockey who'll meet every challenge with a smile on his lips, an ace up his sleeve…and a weapon in his pocket.

Now, for the first time between covers, Hugo-winner Ben Bova presents all the tales of Sam Gunn to date, including three never before collected in book form. Here is the entire chronicle of Sam Gunn, trailblazer and scoundrel, as he scams his way from one end of the Solar System to the other, giving bold new meaning to the term “venture capitalist.”

Cities became ovens. Grasslands became seas of flame. As the touch of dawn swept westward across the spinning planet Earth, its fiery finger killed everything in its path. Glaciers in Switzerland began to melt, floodwaters poured down on the burning, smoking villages dotting the Alpine meadows. Paris became a torch, then London. North of the Arctic Circle, Lapplanders in their summer furs burst into flame as their reindeer collapsed and roasted on the smoking tundra.

The line of dawn raced westward across the Atlantic Ocean, but as it did the brightness diminished. The sun dimmed as quickly as it had brightened.

Part of this novel was published separately, in substantially different form, as ‘When The Sky Burned’, copyright © 1973 by Ben Bova.

Award-winning author Ben Bova brings us New Earth, his latest tale of science fiction in his Grand Tour series.The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth.All of the explorers understand that they are essentially on a one-way mission. The trip takes eighty years each way, so even if they are able to get back to Earth, nearly 200 years will have elapsed. They will have aged only a dozen years thanks to cryonic suspension, but their friends and family will be gone and the very society that they once knew will have changed beyond recognition. The explorers are going into exile, and they know it. They are on this mission not because they were the best available, but because they were expendable.Upon landing on the planet they discover something unexpected: New Earth is inhabited by a small group of intelligent creatures who look very much like human beings.Who are these people? Are they native to this world, or invaders from elsewhere?While they may seem inordinately friendly to the human explorers, what are their real motivations? What do they want?Moreover, the scientists begin to realize that this planet cannot possibly be natural. They face a startling and nearly unthinkable question: Could New Earth be an artifact?