Star Quest Trilogy Books in Order

Jordan Kell returns from an interstellar expedition with news of a radiation wave that will wipe out Earth's life. He must persuade a changed, flood-damaged society to act against a danger its leaders would rather ignore.

This first selection from five decades of Ben Bova's fiction explores space travel, virtual worlds and alternate realities. Engineers, astronauts and political leaders confront new possibilities while carrying familiar ambitions and failings into the future.

A human scouting team encounters an ancient civilisation of intelligent machines that has survived earlier galactic radiation waves. Unwilling to help endangered worlds or risk further visitors, the machines refuse to let the explorers leave.