Gregory Benford - Jupiter Project

It felt good inside to know that. Ultimately, there isn’t anything worth fearing.

The Lab people knew that. They had come this immense distance across the ocean of space, risking everything, living in a cramped tin can—all for the sake of knowledge, to stick their noses into things, to see what makes the universe tick. It’s a human thing to do. Without it we’d bore ourselves to death.

I couldn’t predict the future, but I did know one thing: I wasn’t going to get bored.

“Matt!” my father called. “We’re loading up.”

I freed my magnetic anchors and went to help.

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.

An early version of this novel was serialized in Amazing Science Fiction, Sept.-Nov., 1972. This is a revised and expanded edition, incorporating information from recent explorations of the Jupiter system.

JUPITER PROJECT

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Thomas Nelson edition published 1975

Berkley edition / October 1980

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