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Venus - by Ben Bova Bova is a big name in the Sci-Fi genre, and this is the first book of his that I've read. While it is long, and full of some decent hard science about space travel and planetary science, I was somewhat surprised at the lightness of character development. You spend a lot of time in a cramped ship with these folks, but even when main characters are, shall we say, redacted, the impact is a little light due to how little we have connected with them. Overall, an interesting introduction to Bova, but I suspect some of his older works may carry more of a punch.