Series
Kinsman
Ben Bova · 3 novels · 1 novelette · 4 short stories · 1965–1979
Ben Bova's Kinsman novels follow Chester 'Chet' Kinsman, an American astronaut and later general, across a Cold War-shadowed career in space that spans from early orbital missions to lunar colonization and the militarization of space. The Kinsman Saga later combined and revised the earlier novels into a single continuous narrative. It was written and expanded across the late 1970s and 1980s.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Kinsman at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s3
- 1970s5
Shape
3 novels · 1 novelette · 4 short stories
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionspace explorationspacenear futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book6 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Kinsmandarkest
- Zero Geebrightest
- Millennium: A Novel About People and Politics in the Year 1999calmest
- The Weathermakersmost intense