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Jeebo

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9. "Neptune" by Ben Bova
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 02:14 PM
Nov 2021

Ben Bova's last published novel, it hit the bookshelves almost a year after he died in November 2020 of Covid. It's much shorter than his novels typically are, and I wonder if it is the one he was working on when he died, and they just polished it up and published it even though it wasn't really finished? That would explain why it is so short as well as the timing of its publication. In any event, Bova wrote really good stuff, and when I saw this one on the shelf at Barnes & Noble a few weeks ago, I had to buy it, even though I thought I had already read his last novel. The parts that are in the planet-wide ocean on Neptune read a lot like a Jules Verne novel.

-- Ron

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