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Ben Bova
Author · 115 books

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 book cover

Gremlins, Go Home

1974

Tales of the Grand Tour book cover

Tales of the Grand Tour

2004

Neptune book cover

Neptune

2021

New Earth book cover

New Earth

2013

Faint Echoes, Distant Stars book cover

Faint Echoes, Distant Stars

The Science & Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth

2004

Analog Yearbook book cover

Analog Yearbook

1978

The High Road book cover

The High Road

1981

Laugh Lines book cover

Laugh Lines

2008

City of Darkness book cover

City of Darkness

1976

The Next Logical Step

1962

Mars, Inc. book cover

Mars, Inc.

The Billionaire's Club

2013

Death Dream book cover

Death Dream

1994

Exiled from Earth book cover

Exiled from Earth

1971

Return to Mars book cover

Return to Mars

1999

Orion book cover

Orion

1984

Escape Plus book cover

Escape Plus

1984

Leviathans of Jupiter book cover

Leviathans of Jupiter

2011

The Callahan Kids book cover

The Callahan Kids

Tales of Life on Mars

2012

Venus book cover

Venus

2000

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1972 book cover

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1972

1972

Able One book cover

Able One

2010

The Hittite book cover

The Hittite

2010

Farside book cover

Farside

2013

To Fear the Light book cover

To Fear the Light

1994

Space Station Down book cover

Space Station Down

2020

Sam Gunn Forever book cover

Sam Gunn Forever

1998

Are We Alone in the Cosmos? book cover

Are We Alone in the Cosmos?

The Search for Alien Contact in the New Millennium

1999

Future Crime book cover

Future Crime

1990

Powersat book cover

Powersat

2005

The Silent War book cover

The Silent War

Book III of The Asteroid Wars

2004

Escape! book cover

Escape!

1970

Orion In The Dying Time book cover

Orion In The Dying Time

1990

The Astral Mirror book cover

The Astral Mirror

1985

First Contact book cover

First Contact

1990

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1976 July book cover

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1976 July

1976

The Rock Rats book cover

The Rock Rats

2002

Mercury book cover

Mercury

2005

Challenges book cover

Challenges

1993

Cyberbooks book cover

Cyberbooks

1989

Apes and Angels book cover

Apes and Angels

2016

Sam Gunn Jr. book cover

Sam Gunn Jr.

2022

Kinsman book cover

Kinsman

1979

My Favorites book cover

My Favorites

An Anthology

2020

Out of the Sun book cover

Out of the Sun

1968

The Dueling Machine book cover

The Dueling Machine

1963

Orion and King Arthur book cover

Orion and King Arthur

2011

The Return book cover

The Return

2009

Survival book cover

Survival

2017

Colony book cover

Colony

1978

Forward in Time book cover

Forward in Time

1973

The Starcrossed book cover

The Starcrossed

1975

Test of Fire book cover

Test of Fire

1982

The Star Conquerors book cover

The Star Conquerors

1959

Rescue Mode book cover

Rescue Mode

2014

Voyagers book cover

Voyagers

1981

Orion Among the Stars book cover

Orion Among the Stars

1995

Saturn book cover

Saturn

2003

Moonrise book cover

Moonrise

1996

The Story of Light book cover

The Story of Light

2001

The Best of Bova book cover

The Best of Bova

Volume 2

2016

The Green Trap book cover

The Green Trap

2006

Moonwar book cover

Moonwar

1997

Death Wave book cover

Death Wave

2015

The Precipice book cover

The Precipice

2001

To Save The Sun book cover

To Save The Sun

1992

Welcome to Moonbase book cover

Welcome to Moonbase

1987

Brothers book cover

Brothers

1995

Trans/Human book cover

Trans/Human

2014

Twice Seven book cover

Twice Seven

1998

Uranus book cover

Uranus

2020

The Multiple Man book cover

The Multiple Man

1976

The Aftermath book cover

The Aftermath

2007

Space Travel book cover

Space Travel

1997

Millennium book cover

Millennium

1976

The Immortality Factor book cover

The Immortality Factor

2009

Prometheans book cover

Prometheans

1986

The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells book cover

The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells

1994

When the sky burned book cover

When the sky burned

1973

Sam Gunn Unlimited book cover

Sam Gunn Unlimited

1992

Exiles book cover

Exiles

3 Novellas

1977

Titan book cover

Titan

2006

Science Fiction Hall of Fame book cover

Science Fiction Hall of Fame

The Novellas Book 1

2023

Mars Life book cover

Mars Life

2008

THX 1138 book cover

THX 1138

1971

Voyagers II book cover

Voyagers II

The Alien Within

1986

Mars book cover

Mars

1992

Empire Builders book cover

Empire Builders

1993

Orion and the Conqueror book cover

Orion and the Conqueror

1994

The Dueling Machine and Other Works by Ben Bova book cover

The Dueling Machine and Other Works by Ben Bova

2010

Ben Bova's Grand Tour SciFi Series book cover

Ben Bova's Grand Tour SciFi Series

Mars, Moonrise, Moonwar, Return to Mars

2017

Triumph book cover

Triumph

1993

As on a Darkling Plain book cover

As on a Darkling Plain

1972

Power Play book cover

Power Play

2012

Power Failure book cover

Power Failure

2018

Immortality book cover

Immortality

1998

Death Wave (Star Quest Trilogy, Book 1) book cover

Death Wave (Star Quest Trilogy, Book 1)

2015

The Weathermakers book cover

The Weathermakers

1967

Jupiter book cover

Jupiter

2000

Notes to a Science Fiction Writer book cover

Notes to a Science Fiction Writer

1975

Voyagers III book cover

Voyagers III

Star Brothers

1990

Power Challenges book cover

Power Challenges

2021

The Peacekeepers book cover

The Peacekeepers

1988

End of Exile book cover

End of Exile

1975

Earth book cover

Earth

2019

Power Surge book cover

Power Surge

2015

Battle Station book cover

Battle Station

1990

Star Watchman book cover

Star Watchman

1964

Vengeance of Orion book cover

Vengeance of Orion

1988

Flight of Exiles book cover

Flight of Exiles

1972

The Trikon Deception book cover

The Trikon Deception

1992

Mercury and Prometheans book cover

Mercury and Prometheans

Two Complete Novels

2015

The Winds Of Altair book cover

The Winds Of Altair

1973

Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow book cover

Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow

1975

Privateers book cover

Privateers

1985

SF Hall Of Fame book cover

SF Hall Of Fame

The Novellas Book 3

1975

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