The Exiles Trilogy eBook Ben Bova
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When all the best of Earth's scientists are forced into exile to a space station to prevent their work from upsetting the status quo, they decide to embark on an even grander adventure to the stars. An epic three-volume saga from a science fiction master, all in one book
EXILED FROM EARTH
FLIGHT OF EXILES
END OF EXILE
Dr. Ben Bova is a six-time Hugo Award winner and author of over 125 futuristic novels and nonfiction book about science and technology.
The Exiles Trilogy eBook Ben Bova
Though fairly well written, I was a little disappointed. Each novella was interesting and situation based, but with little character development and follow-thru. Just as you really begin to care about the characters and the situation, the story ends. Each book leaves you looking forward to more with the next book in the trilogy, yet there is very little character, situation continuity. Each story, on its own, is interesting, but I would have liked to have seen more. The overall premise, following this great ship through not just one but several, separated generations, was a good one, yet it felt like each was too far removed from the previous.Product details
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The Exiles Trilogy eBook Ben Bova Reviews
Excellent and entertaining trilogy. Details the story of 3 generations surviving life after having been exited from Earth and the struggle to survive. I first read this book when I was younger and searched for years before finding it again. Ben Bova classic. You won't be disappointed!
Since there is very little plot information given about this trilogy - these are three more-or-less independent short novels. Each installment is set many years after the previous one, and there are no recurring characters. A couple of characters in book 2 are related to characters from book 1. Book 3 is much farther in the future, and there is essentially no continuity to book 2. The narrative fills in some of the gaps, but it is unclear just how much farther in the future this is.
Book 1 is a fairly straightforward action-adventure sci-fi story, set mostly on Earth, and culminating with the exile of scientists and decision to set off for the stars.
Book 2 is more of a murder-mystery love-triangle story, with more psychological elements.
Book 3 is, to me , the most interesting of the three; sort of a miniature post-apocalyptic microcosm with a lone hero re-discovering lost secrets and technology.
Each of these novels (or perhaps novellae is a better term) is quite compact. There is some character development, but mostly the stories move along fairly quickly. My main complaint is that each story ends quite abruptly after the climax - you get the feeling you are just on the verge of the story beginning to get really interesting, and then it ends. And then you move on to the next book, and it is entirely different; the characters and plots you were just beginning to care about are all gone. There are some gaps in continuity - for example the ship seems to have acquired many more levels or rings between book 2 and book 3, so it's up to the reader to assume that more levels were added over the years. It is unclear but can be presumed that the next planet they decide on at the end of book 2 isn't the destination in book 3, because obviously more than 50 years have passed. So the reader is then free to assume that quite a lot of time has passed.
As another reviewer pointed out, I think some of the themes (generational starships, cryogenic freezing, survival in hostile worlds, etc) are a bit warmed over and rehashed, and there aren't really any unique takes on the themes. So that leaves the particulars of the settings and characters. They are interesting, but nothing that blows you away. Dialogue isn't great. Descriptions are adequately descriptive. But because these are short novels, there are some points that could be explored more deeply.
Another realization I am coming to is that the genre of "hard sci-fi" (which I would categorize this as), is "hard" in terms of some degree accuracy in physics and chemistry, but not biology. I think authors like Bova understand their physics and astronomy reasonably well, and are comfortable with "realistic" plot elements here. But they don't know that much about biology, and thus feel less constrained by reality. And so they have more fanciful elements about genetic engineering and so forth, which to me are basically the biology equivalent of the faster-than-light travel and time travel and other fanciful elements that characterize the "space opera" genre.
Another great book by the great Ben Bova. I thought this trilogy would last me all summer, but I could not put it down. Alas i finished all 6700 in three weeks. Guess it's time to move to another Bova book.
Ben is one of my favorite SciFi authors.
His works are still classics. In the same exhalted category as those of Arthur C. Clarke.
This one had more discontinuity in it than I would have expected, the three stories were separated by many years and the linkage was not described in a preamble I suppose he expects us readers to be sentient enough to "grok" it out.<G>.
Someone recommended Bova's EXILES trilogy to me and at first, when I read the description, I wasn't too sold on the idea but I went ahead and decided to take in this adventure.
The three books that make up this trilogy are as different as different can be. EXILED FROM EARTH, the first in the series, was my least favorite. In fact, after reading it, I wasn't sure I wanted to read the rest of the series. It basically focuses on the world government forcing many scientists off Earth and onto a satellite that orbits Earth. It ends with the exiled crew voting to turn their satellite/prison into a spaceship that will carry them to another planet so that they can live in freedom once again. There's a lot of pulp-style action in it but a lot of it just wasn't very compelling and didn't make sense, ie, Lou escapes capture only to immediately return to work and grow suspicious that the place is deserted and then acts surprised when they come to capture him again. Unfortunately, if you're going to read any of this series, the first book is necessary to set up the real stories to come later on. I don't think the first book would make a good movie at all. On the bright side, it's a short, quick read.
However, book two is where things really get cooking. FLIGHT OF EXILES is somewhat of a murder mystery/political drama played out in space. The situation was much more compelling, as were the characters. This would make an excellent Sci-Fi channel movie-of-the-week.
My favorite book in the series was definitely book three - END OF EXILE. Talk about coming out of left field! It focuses on Linc, a kid amongst many other kids on the now century old, falling apart spaceship. There is almost no explanation given as to what happened to the adults in the prior book. Bova does a great job of leaving stuff up to the reader's imagination and I'm glad about that because I didn't necessarily want him to break away from the story he's telling here to take a time out and fill in the blanks. The story plays out almost like a LORD OF THE FLIES in space. There are a lot of themes about religion and faith - Linc ascending "up" the ship to consult Jerlet (more or less, God in this story) and then coming back ("resurrected") to face the masses and lead them to salvation. This third book would make an excellent made-for-tv movie.
Plot, character and conflict are all outstanding.
No spoilers. Buy the trilogy and prepare to stay up late!!
Finish the third book with a smile and an image in your mind of what could happen next.
Though fairly well written, I was a little disappointed. Each novella was interesting and situation based, but with little character development and follow-thru. Just as you really begin to care about the characters and the situation, the story ends. Each book leaves you looking forward to more with the next book in the trilogy, yet there is very little character, situation continuity. Each story, on its own, is interesting, but I would have liked to have seen more. The overall premise, following this great ship through not just one but several, separated generations, was a good one, yet it felt like each was too far removed from the previous.
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