
Ben Bova was born on November 8, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1953, while attending Temple University, he married Rosa Cucinotta, they had a son and a daughter. He would later divorce Rosa in 1974. In that same year he married Barbara Berson Rose. Bova was an avid fencer and organized Avco Everett's fencing club. He was an environmentalist, but rejected Luddism. Bova was a technical writer for Project Vanguard and later for Avco Everett in the 1960s when they did research in lasers and fluid dynamics. It was there that he met Arthur R. Kantrowitz later of the Foresight Institute. In 1971 he became editor of Analog Science Fiction after John W. Campbell's death. After leaving Analog, he went on to edit Omni during 1978-1982. In 1974 he wrote the screenplay for an episode of the children's science fiction television series Land of the Lost entitled "The Search". Bova was the science advisor for the failed television series The Starlost, leaving in disgust after the airing of the first episode. His novel The Starcrossed was loosely based on his experiences and featured a thinly veiled characterization of his friend and colleague Harlan Ellison. He dedicated the novel to "Cordwainer Bird", the pen name Harlan Ellison uses when he does not want to be associated with a television or film project. Bova was the President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past President of Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Bova went back to school in the 1980s, earning an M.A. in communications in 1987 and a Ph.D. in 1996. Bova has drawn on these meetings and experiences to create fact and fiction writings rich with references to spaceflight, lasers, artificial hearts, nanotechnology, environmentalism, fencing and martial arts, photography and artists. Bova was the author of over a hundred and fifteen books, non-fiction as well as science fiction. In 2000, he was the Author Guest of Honor at the 58th World Science Fiction Convention (Chicon 2000). Hollywood has started to take an interest in Bova's works once again, in addition to his wealth of knowledge about science and what the future may look like. In 2007, he was hired as a consultant by both Stuber/Parent Productions to provide insight into what the world is to look like in the near future for their upcoming film "Repossession Mambo" (released as "Repo Men") starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker and by Silver Pictures in which he provided consulting services on the feature adaptation of Richard Morgan's "Altered Carbon". http://us.macmillan.com/author/benbova
Series
Books

Gremlins, Go Home
1974

Tales of the Grand Tour
2004

Neptune
2021

New Earth
2013

Faint Echoes, Distant Stars
The Science & Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth
2004

Analog Yearbook
1978

The High Road
1981

Laugh Lines
2008

City of Darkness
1976
The Next Logical Step
1962

Mars, Inc.
The Billionaire's Club
2013

Death Dream
1994

Exiled from Earth
1971

Return to Mars
1999

Orion
1984

Escape Plus
1984

Leviathans of Jupiter
2011

The Callahan Kids
Tales of Life on Mars
2012

Venus
2000

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1972
1972

Able One
2010

The Hittite
2010

Farside
2013

To Fear the Light
1994

Space Station Down
2020

Sam Gunn Forever
1998

Are We Alone in the Cosmos?
The Search for Alien Contact in the New Millennium
1999

Future Crime
1990

Powersat
2005

The Silent War
Book III of The Asteroid Wars
2004

Escape!
1970

Orion In The Dying Time
1990

The Astral Mirror
1985

First Contact
1990

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1976 July
1976

The Rock Rats
2002

Mercury
2005

Challenges
1993

Cyberbooks
1989

Apes and Angels
2016

Sam Gunn Jr.
2022

Kinsman
1979

My Favorites
An Anthology
2020

Out of the Sun
1968

The Dueling Machine
1963

Orion and King Arthur
2011

The Return
2009

Survival
2017

Colony
1978

Forward in Time
1973

The Starcrossed
1975

Test of Fire
1982

The Star Conquerors
1959

Rescue Mode
2014

Voyagers
1981

Orion Among the Stars
1995

Saturn
2003

Moonrise
1996

The Story of Light
2001

The Best of Bova
Volume 2
2016

The Green Trap
2006

Moonwar
1997

Death Wave
2015

The Precipice
2001

To Save The Sun
1992

Welcome to Moonbase
1987

Brothers
1995

Trans/Human
2014

Twice Seven
1998

Uranus
2020

The Multiple Man
1976

The Aftermath
2007

Space Travel
1997

Millennium
1976

The Immortality Factor
2009

Prometheans
1986

The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells
1994

When the sky burned
1973

Sam Gunn Unlimited
1992

Exiles
3 Novellas
1977

Titan
2006

Science Fiction Hall of Fame
The Novellas Book 1
2023

Mars Life
2008

THX 1138
1971

Voyagers II
The Alien Within
1986

Mars
1992

Empire Builders
1993

Orion and the Conqueror
1994

The Dueling Machine and Other Works by Ben Bova
2010

Ben Bova's Grand Tour SciFi Series
Mars, Moonrise, Moonwar, Return to Mars
2017

Triumph
1993

As on a Darkling Plain
1972

Power Play
2012

Power Failure
2018

Immortality
1998

Death Wave (Star Quest Trilogy, Book 1)
2015

The Weathermakers
1967

Jupiter
2000

Notes to a Science Fiction Writer
1975

Voyagers III
Star Brothers
1990

Power Challenges
2021

The Peacekeepers
1988

End of Exile
1975

Earth
2019

Power Surge
2015

Battle Station
1990

Star Watchman
1964

Vengeance of Orion
1988

Flight of Exiles
1972

The Trikon Deception
1992

Mercury and Prometheans
Two Complete Novels
2015

The Winds Of Altair
1973

Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow
1975

Privateers
1985

SF Hall Of Fame
The Novellas Book 3
1975