I love Ben Bova, but I was kind of disappointed in this book. Partly it was my own fault, because I went in expecting a more SF experience without really reading the blurb, but partly I didn't really like most of the characters very much. ( )

As a big fan of Ben Bova, I thought I'd give this non-scifi series a try. The main character, Jake Ross, is a down-in-the-dumps widower desperately looking for a new love interest. Behind this, is a story of a senatorial candidate promoting a new power generation technology to get elected. Not great, but still entertaining. ( )

Where university politics meets national politics. It is political fiction, a political thriller, not sci-fi. Then, not even a political thriller. I always knew that our hero would get out of the scrape he was in. Read the rest of the series? Not much chance of that. ( )

The one star is for the great cover. Why this book is considered Science Fiction I couldn't guess. It's also not a mystery, and, and...it's just a story, badly written, with boring characters who resemble, if anything, cardboard cut-outs. Plot is well hidden if there is one. I'm surprised since i heard good things about Ben Bova and was looking forward to enjoying some sci fi which I haven't read in years. Sadly, Power Play was dull and boring whatever genre it's part of. ( )

This book is NOT science fiction even though libraries and reviewers classify it that way. It is political fiction, a political thriller. The only science in it is descriptions of a magnetohydrodynamic power generator. (Yawn). As political thriller the book is tolerable but just barely so. I found it rather juvenile. The plot was thin. The characters were poorly drawn. Not much to like about it. The best I can say for the book is that chapters were short so that you could read the book in snatches. Ben Bova is supposed to be a good writer, a good science fiction writer, but his talents are not displayed here. ( )