After reading Venus I moved on to Jupiter and now I am beginning Welcome to Moonbase. One thing I have noticed in both Venus and Jupiter is that science and politics are driving forces for the novels. For example the main character's brother in Venus originally went on a voyage to Venus to support a group of scientist who were trying to show how earth could became like Venus if we did not change our behavior.

In Jupiter science also plays an important role. In this book Grant is sent to space station gold to spy on scientist who are searching for inteligent life inside Jupiter. In the course of the novel Grant is forced to decided between his religious beliefs or keeping the mission secret so that the religious political party of the New Morality does not try to cancel the mission.

A styalistic choice that Ben Bova makes is to write both his novels in first person. I thought that this was a good idea because it puts you in the center of the action. Also in both novels the main characters start out doing small tasks and as the novel progresses they begin to get more and more responcibility and became heros by the end of the book.

The book that I am reading now is much different than the first two novels. In fact the book is not really a novel at all. Instead it's more like an interesting text book than a novel and describes how we would return to the moon.