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Space Station Down

An American astronaut fights to stop a massive terrorist plot from destroying the east coast in this action-packed technothriller.

“Think Die Hard happening two hundred and fifty miles above the earth. . . . Will have you watching the skies overhead much more closely.” —Steve Berry

From Hugo Award–winning author Ben Bova and Nebula Award finalist Doug Beason:

When two rogue cosmonauts slaughter all but one astronaut on the International Space Sttion, the sole survivor, Kimberly Hadid-Robinson, barricades herself in a remote section of the station, wreaking havoc on the terrorists’ plans.

The twisted terrorists plot to destroy the United States by obliterating New York City, the financial capital of the world, and raining down a million pounds of radioactive metal from Florida to Maine.

As the station descends, Kimberly is in a race against time—not only to save her own life but the lives of millions!

Praise for Space Station Down

“One hell of a fine suspense novel.” —Stephen Coonts, New York Times–bestselling author

“Wow! I found myself feeling like I was flying through the space stations. . . . And I should know—I’ve been there!” —Nicole Scott, International Space Station and space shuttle astronaut, spacewalker, and aquanaut

Ben Bova, Doug Beason

Ben Bova (1932-2020) was the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including Able One, Transhuman, Orion, the Star Quest Trilogy, and the Grand Tour novels, including Titan, winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. His many honors include the Isaac Asimov Memorial Award in 1996, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award “for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature” in 2008.

Dr. Bova was President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, and a former editor of Analog and former fiction editor of Omni. As an editor, he won science fiction’s Hugo Award six times. His writings predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), electronic book publishing, and much more.

In addition to his literary achievements, Bova worked for Project Vanguard, America’s first artificial satellite program, and for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, the company that created the heat shields for Apollo 11, helping the NASA astronauts land on the moon. He also taught science fiction at Harvard University and at New York City’s Hayden Planetarium and worked with such filmmakers as George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry.

Doug Beason is a Nebula Award finalist whose fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, as well as an expert on National Defense Security and a retired Colonel in the Air Force. His novel The Trinity Paradox was the first novel ever reviewed in Physics Today and the first work of fiction nominated for the American Physical Society's Forum Award.

Tom Doherty Associates