We’re coming up on the end of the year already, and like most of the rest of us publishers will be shutting down for a goodly chunk of it. But there’s still a handful of books coming out this month, and you’re likely to find something to appeal to you in this little lot. Survival by Ben Bova Bova has been writing his hard sf Tales of the Grand Tour series since the late 1980s. This latest instalment closes off the Star Quest trilogy that began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels. In this novel, a human team scouting a few hundred light years ahead of the death wave encounters a civilization of ..read more