A Grand Tour Collection

A Grand Tour Collection bundles eleven pieces of Ben Bova's solar-system saga into one bind-up: the novels Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Powersat, Mercury, Titan, Mars Life, Leviathans of Jupiter, Farside, and New Earth, plus the story collection Tales of the Grand Tour. It reads less like one narrative than a guided tour of Bova's hard-science-fiction future, tracing humanity's push outward from Venus to the asteroid belt across more than a decade of the series — an entry point for seeing how the pieces fit.