Titan (46 page)
Authors: Ben Bova
| The Aftermath | Privateers |
| As on a Darkling Plain | Prometheans |
| The Astral Mirror | The Rock Rats |
| Battle Station | The Sam Gunn Omnibus |
| The Best of the Nebulas (editor) | Saturn |
| The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B | |
| Challenges | |
| Colony | The Silent War |
| Cyberbooks | Star Peace: Assured Survival |
| Escape Plus | The Starcrossed |
| The Green Trap | Tales of the Grand Tour |
| Gremlins Go Home (with Gordon R. Dickson) | Test of Fire |
| Titan | |
| The Immortality Factor | To Fear the Light (with A. J. Austin) |
| Jupiter | |
| The Kinsman Saga | To Save the Sun (with A. J. Austin) |
| Mercury | |
| The Multiple Man | The Trikon Deception (with Bill Pogue) |
| Orion | |
| Orion Among the Stars | Triumph |
| Orion and the Conqueror | Vengeance of Orion |
| Orion in the Dying Time | Venus |
| Out of the Sun | Voyagers |
| Peacekeepers | Voyagers II: The Alien Within |
| Powersat | Voyagers III: Star Brothers |
| The Precipice | The Winds of Altair |
Urbain stared down at her. “
Titan
Alpha actually fired its laser?”
Titan
Alpha actually fired its laser?”
“Yes, sir, it surely did.”
One of the engineers said, “That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you, Dr. Urbain. We’re getting telemetry from the lander. It’s sending up continuous data on its internal condition. Everything’s working fine.”
“But it will not uplink data from its sensors.”
“That’s the one glitch,” the engineer admitted.
Urbain glared at him. “This glitch, as you put it, makes
Titan Alpha
useless, pointless, stupid.”
Titan Alpha
useless, pointless, stupid.”
Returning his glare without blinking, the engineer insisted, “I think it’s the central computer. Some kind of error in the programming. Everything is fine in the lander except for the data uplink. For some reason it’s not sending data back to us. The sensors seem to be working as designed, but the vehicle is not uplinking the data it’s collecting. It’s got to be a computer glitch.”
“In other words,” Urbain said coldly, “you are telling me that the patient is in fine condition, except that she is catatonic.”
This is a work of fiction. All the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
TITAN
Copyright © 2006 by Ben Bova
All rights reserved.
Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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eISBN 9781429910620
First eBook Edition : February 2011
First Edition: March 2006
First Mass Market Edition: March 2007
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