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Jupiter Project (Mass Market Paperback)

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The Jovian Astronautical-Biological Orbital Laboratory circles Jupiter and its moons--a metal shell bathed in lethal radiation, held in tenuous place by the gravity of the massive gas giant like a fragile glass ornament in a monstrous fist.

For seventeen-year-old Matt Bohles and his friends, "the Can" is home.

Life onboard the aging space station is cramped, spartan, and dangerous. Its mission--to monitor incoming signals and transmissions in search of alien life--has so far proven fruitless.

It is the only world Matt has ever known.

But now, as the threshold of adulthood--with its onset of new questions, confusions and feelings --Matt Bohles faces an impending crisis that threatens everything he knows and is. For unless he can prove himself an invaluable member of the scientific team--and quickly--he will be exiled to a filthy, perilous and unfamiliar hell called Earth.



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Gregory Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. His research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics. His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. Dr. Benford makes his home in Laguna Beach, California.

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 195 pages
  • Publisher: Eos (August 1, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0380790572
  • ISBN-13: 978-0380790579
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.5 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,187,127 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars An Incomplete Novel, January 8, 2000
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I found myself interested in the book. I loved the technical info the author writes about. I wish the story hadn't splintered into the "will the project be ended and all the people sent back to earth" and the "is there an alien coming back to our solar system". The original concept for the book about a boy about to be a man and fighting to stay on the ship was interesting. I liked the characters also I wish the reader could have known them better though. I hated the ending, it was incomplete and didn't further the story or help it in any way. This could have been a really great book, it kept my attention two thirds of the way through. In the end it was just a disappointment. It is really a shame.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Certainly not his best work, August 22, 2000
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I have to admit that this particular novel didn't really reach me. The story is told from the point of view of a 17 year old - but that doesn't excuse the fact that the novel struck me as being a poor attempt to emulate one of Heinlein's juvenile novels. For the first two thirds of the novel plot was somewhat predictable. Past that point, the plot went haywire - things happening for no reason, simply to allow the author to finish off a story he didn't seem to have a decent conclusion for. I found the work disappointing, and could not recommend it to anyone.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Good Book for teens, August 31, 2001
By Ian Cruickshank (Victoria, B.C., Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Jupiter Project: 2 (Hardcover)
The book is more aimed at a younger audience. The story is about a 17 year old boy who is reaching the turning point in his life. His is maturing faster than he realizes and has some difficulties dealing with his promblems. The story itself is simple and the ending not very suprising, yet it was enjoyable to read. The older more "sophisticated" may find the story a little "low brow", but the teenager may enjoy the story more becasue they can relate to the protagonist.
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