A review by circus_of_damned
Apes and Angels by Ben Bova

2.0

This had the feel of listening to a Star Trek: Enterprise episode. The new space explorers make contact with an alien species and stumble through that experience. However there were issues I had, mostly with the human explorers. It was a lot of Alpha males having pissing contest over who was in charge. And all the female characters you meet are either damsels or bitches. Then Brad the main character is a self-centered pain who has to be right and always is. And no matter what the alien on Gamma say about there history or culture all the scientist can say is it mythology no matter how much evidence there is in there face to say the Gamma alien are right. So this fun first contact happy story is ruined by crappy, competitive, narcissistic humans.