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Ben Bova
Ben Bova (1932-2020) was the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including Able One, Transhuman, Orion, the Star Quest Trilogy, and the Grand Tour nove...view moreBen Bova (1932-2020) was the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including Able One, Transhuman, Orion, the Star Quest Trilogy, and the Grand Tour novels, including Titan, winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. His many honors include the Isaac Asimov Memorial Award in 1996, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award “for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature” in 2008. Dr. Bova was President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, and a former editor of Analog and former fiction editor of Omni. As an editor, he won science fiction’s Hugo Award six times. His writings predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), electronic book publishing, and much more. In addition to his literary achievements, Bova worked for Project Vanguard, America’s first artificial satellite program, and for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, the company that created the heat shields for Apollo 11, helping the NASA astronauts land on the moon. He also taught science fiction at Harvard University and at New York City’s Hayden Planetarium and worked with such filmmakers as George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry.view less

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  • Earth

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  • Apes and Angels

    Author Ben Bova
  • Moonwar

    Author Ben Bova
  • Moonrise

    Author Ben Bova
  • Mars

    Author Ben Bova
  • Return to Mars

    Author Ben Bova
  • Empire Builders: The Stunning Sequel to Privateers

    Author Ben Bova
  • The Return: Book IV of Voyagers

    Author Ben Bova
  • Privateers

    Author Ben Bova
  • Voyagers II: The Alien Within

    Author Ben Bova
  • The Rock Rats

    Author Ben Bova
  • Powersat: A Thriller of Technology, Terrorism, and Hope

    Author Ben Bova
  • The Silent War: Book III of The Asteroid Wars

    Author Ben Bova
  • Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction

    Author Robert Heinlein
  • The Sam Gunn Omnibus

    Author Ben Bova
  • Orion: A Novel

    Author Ben Bova
  • The Precipice: A Novel

    Author Ben Bova
  • Voyagers

    Author Ben Bova
  • Partners in Wonder: Stories

    Author Robert Silverberg
  • Again, Dangerous Visions: Stories

    Author Dean Koontz

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  • Titan: A Tale of Cataclysmic Discovery

    Author Ben Bova
  • Space Station Down

    Author Ben Bova
  • The Aftermath: Book Four of the Asteroid Wars

    Author Ben Bova
  • Grand Tour

    Author Ben Bova
  • Jupiter: A Novel

    Author Ben Bova
  • Saturn: A Novel of the Ringed Planet - and the Humans Who Explore It

    Author Ben Bova
  • The Rock Rats: Book Two of The Asteroid Wars

    Author Ben Bova
  • The Silent War: Book Three of The Asteroid Wars

    Author Ben Bova
  • Mercury

    Author Ben Bova
  • The Precipice: Book One of the Asteroid Wars

    Author Ben Bova
  • The Dueling Machine

    Author Ben Bova

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