Benjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932 – November 29, 2020) was an American science fiction author and editor.
Easton Press Ben Bova books
The Kinsman Saga - Masterpieces of Science Fiction - 1989
Voyagers III: Star Brothers - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 1990
Trikon Deception - (co-authored with Bill Pogue) Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 1992
Brothers - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 1996
Moonrise - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 1996
Moonwar - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 1998
Return to Mars - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 1999
Venus - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 2000
Jupiter - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 2001
Saturn - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 2003
Mercury - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 2005
The Immortality Factor - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 2009
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Author Ben Bova
He was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, he was six-time winner of the Hugo Award, a former editor of Analog Magazine, a former editorial director of Omni; he was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America.
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. Barbara Bova passed away on September 23, 2009. In 2013 Bova remarried to Rashida Loya.
Bova was an avid fencer in younger days, and organized Avco Everett's fencing club. He is a cautious environmentalist, but rejects Luddism.
Bova died November 29, 2020
Writer
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 is 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 Ed.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 is the author of over one hundred 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).
Recently, Hollywood has taken an interest in Bova's works for 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" 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".
Ben Bova books in order
The Star Conquerors (1959)
Star Watchman (1964)
The Weathermakers (1967)
Out of the Sun. Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1968)
The Dueling Machine (1969)
Escape! (1969)
Exiled from Earth (1971)
THX 1138 (with George Lucas - 1971)
Flight of Exiles (1972)
When the Sky Burned (1972)
As on a Darkling Plain (1972)
Gremlins, Go Home! (with Gordon Dickson - 1974)
The Starcrossed (1975)
The Multiple Man (1976)
City of Darkness (1976)
Millennium (1976)
Colony (1978)
Kinsman (1979)
Test of Fire (1982) (A revised version of When the Sky Burned)
The Winds of Altair (1973)
End of Exile (1975)
Voyagers (1981)
Orion (1984)
Privateers (1985)
The Alien Within (1986)
The Kinsman Saga (1987)
Peacekeepers (1988)
Vengeance of Orion (1988)
Cyberbooks (1989)
Orion in the Dying Time (1990)
Star Brothers (1990)
Mars (1992)
The Trikon Deception (with Bill Pogue - 1992)
To Save the Sun (with A.J. Austin - 1992)
Empire Builders (1993)
Sam Gunn, Unlimited (Short stories - 1993)
Triumph (1993)
To Fear the Light (with A.J. Austin - 1994)
Death Dream (1994)
Orion and the Conqueror (1994)
Orion Among the Stars (1995)
Brothers. NEL (1995)
Appointment in Sinai (1996)
Moonrise (1996; The Moonbase Saga, v. 1)
Moonwar (1998; The Moonbase Saga, v. 2)
Sam Gunn Forever (Short stories - 1998)
Return to Mars (1999)
Venus (2000)
Jupiter (2001)
The Precipice (2001; The Asteroid Wars, v. 1)
The Rock Rats (2002; The Asteroid Wars, v. 2)
Saturn (2002)
The Silent War (2004; The Asteroid Wars, v. 3)
Powersat (2005)
Mercury (2005)
Titan (2006)
The Green Trap (2006)
Sam Gunn Omnibus (2007)
The Aftermath (2007; The Asteroid Wars, v. 4)
Laugh Lines (Short stories including The Starcrossed and Cyberbooks - 2008)
Mars Life (2008)
The Return (2009)
The Immortality Factor (2009)
The Hittite (2010)
Able One (2010)
Leviathans of Jupiter (2011)
Power Play (2011)
Orion and King Arthur (2011)
Farside (2013)
New Earth (2013)
Mars, Inc.: The Billionaire's Club. Baen (2013)
New Earth (2013)
Transhuman (2014)
Rescue Mode (with Les Johnson) (2014)
Power Surge (2015)
Death Wave (2015)
Death Wave (2015) Book One of the Star Quest Trilogy and a sequel to New Earth
Apes and Angels (2016) Book Two of the Star Quest Trilogy
Apes and Angels (2016)
Survival (2017) Book Three of the Star Quest Trilogy
Survival (2017)
Power Failure (2018)
Earth (2019)
Uranus (2020)
Space Station Down (with Doug Beason - 2020)
Works as editor
The Many Worlds of Science Fiction (1971)
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two (1973)
Aliens. Orbit (1977)
The Best of the Nebulas (1989)
The Future Quartet - Earth in the Year 2042 (1995)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (2008)
Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction (2014)
Collections
Forward in Time (1973)
Maxwell's Demons (1979)
E (1984)
The Astral Mirror (1985)
Prometheans (1986)
Battle Station (1987)
Future Crime (1990)
Challenges (1994)
Twice Seven (1998)
New Frontiers (2014)
Best of Bova: Volume 1 (2016)
Best of Bova: Volume 2 (2016)
Best of Bova: Volume 3 (2017)
Non-fiction
The Milky Way Galaxy (1961)
The amazing laser (1971)
Man Changes the Weather (1973)
The Weather Changes Man (1974)
In Quest of Quasars (1975)
Starflight and Other Improbabilities (1973)
Notes to a Science Fiction Writer (1975)
The High Road H (1981)
Assured Survival: Putting The Star Wars Defense In Perspective (1984)
Welcome to Moonbase (1987)
The Beauty of Light (1988)
The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells (199)
Immortality (1998)
Are We Alone in the Cosmos? (1999)
The Story of Light (2001)
Sex in space (2001)
Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth (2004)
Across My Life ... (2010)
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