Series
The Asteroid Wars
Ben Bova · 4 novels · 2001–2007
Ben Bova's Asteroid Wars, part of his wider Grand Tour future history, follows the rival Humphries and Astro corporations fighting for control of asteroid-belt mining rights, and the miners and scientists caught between them, across four novels beginning with The Precipice. Corporate ruthlessness and personal survival collide as humanity's economic frontier moves outward.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
The Asteroid Wars 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
- 2000s4
Shape
4 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionspace colonizationasteroid beltnear futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Precipicedarkest · most intense
- The Rock Ratsbrightest · calmest