Review: LEVIATHANS OF JUPITER

Prior to LEVIATHANS OF JUPITER, I had only read the SF novel URANUS [Outer Planets Book 1] by this extremely prolific and excellent author. [R.I.P.]
I synchronistically stumbled upon LEVIATHANS OF JUPITER [Grand Tour 15], and enticed by both nouns in the title, leaped in. I loved it! Now I have all the remaining of more than 120 to read😊.

LEVIATHANS OF JUPITER continues the saga of JUPITER [Grand Tour 12] and is an exciting, inspiring, adventurous, nonstop plot-twisting SF novel. Nothing to do with Earth here, only indirect references [population of twenty billion??!😳] but instead is set on an orbital Science Station orbiting Jupiter, and in Jupiter's Ocean [yes, Jupiter has just one, planetwide]. Also referenced is the nation of Selene on Earth's Moon, a Science hub.

Mr. Bova not only knows his Astronomy and Xenobiology, he also understands human character. Here are "good guys," "crooks," apathetic technicians who surrender ethics for money, and an evil (but slightly understandable given backstory) Villain who endeavors only to destroy accomplishment and Scientific breakthroughs in the quest for immense, even ultimate, power.