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  • Bibliography:
    115 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1962
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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About the Author

Benjamin William Bova died on the morning of November 29th, 2020.
He was an American writer. He was 88 years

Full Series List in Order

The Asteroid Wars

1 - The Precipice (Nov-2001)
2 - The Rock Rats (Apr-2002)
3 - The Silent War (May-2004)
4 - The Aftermath (Mar-2007)

The Exiles Trilogy

1 - The Exiled From Earth (1971)
2 - Flight of Exiles (1972)
3 - End of Exile (1975)

The Grand Tour

1 - Mars (Jul-1992)
2 - Empire Builders (1993)
3 - Moonrise (Dec-1996)
4 - Moonwar (Mar-1998)
6 - Venus (Apr-2000)
7 - Jupiter (Jan-2001)
8 - The Precipice (Nov-2001)
9 - The Rock Rats (Apr-2002)
10 - Saturn (2003)
11 - Tales of the Grand Tour (Jan-2004)
12 - The Silent War (May-2004)
13 - Powersat (Jan-2005)
14 - Mercury (May-2005)
15 - Titan (Feb-2006)
16 - The Aftermath (Mar-2007)
17 - Mars Life (Aug-2008)
18 - The Return (Aug-2009)
19 - Leviathans of Jupiter (Feb-2011)
20 - Farside (Feb-2013)
21 - New Earth (Jul-2013)
22 - Death Wave (Nov-2015)
23 - Apes and Angels (Nov-2016)
24 - Survival (Jan-2018)
25 - Earth (Jul-2019)

Jake Ross

1 - Power Play (Jan-2012)
2 - Power Surge (Aug-2015)
3 - Power Failure (Oct-2018)
4 - Power Challenges (Apr-2021)

Outer Planets

1 - Uranus (Jul-2020)
2 - Neptune (Aug-2021)

Star Quest Trilogy

0.5 - New Earth (Jul-2013)
1 - Death Wave (Nov-2015)
2 - Apes and Angels (Nov-2016)
3 - Survival (Jan-2018)

Voyagers

1 - Voyagers (Aug-1981)
2 - The Alien Within (Feb-1986)
3 - Star Brothers (Mar-1990)
4 - The Return (Aug-2009)

Book List in Order: 115 titles

  • The Next Logical Step

    For thousands of years, military forces around the world have been honing their technological prowess to get a leg up on their enemies. In Ben Bova's disturbing short story "The Next Logical Step," master scientists have created what is p...

  • The Weather Makers

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    The weather -- everyone complains about it but no one does anything about it. Ted Marrett knows how to do things with weather, important things such as bringing rain to drought-stricken agricultural areas. And as soon as he does, the Pentagon de...

  • The Dueling Machine

    The trouble with great ideas is that someone is sure to expend enormous effort and ingenuity figuring out how to louse them up. Ben Bova weaves a tale of wonder and science fiction splendor with one of his many masterpieces, The Dueling Machine!...

  • The Exiled From Earth

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    The Exiles Trilogy - 1

    A powerful world government has scientists transported from an overpopulated earth to a satellite on the eve of their discovery of a method to modify the human embryo....

  • Flight of Exiles

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    The Exiles Trilogy - 2

    A group of scientists and other space travellers face life and death decisions after their spacecraft is damaged by fire....

  • Forward in Time

    Walker, 1973. Hardcover with dustjacket, FIRST EDITION with $6.95 price on flap. Collection of stories by former Analog Magazine editor and "hard sf" writer. STORIES: The Next Logical Step (1962); A Slight Miscalculation (1971); Blood of Tyrants (197...

  • The Supersonice Zeppelin

    in Laugh Lines
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    The Future is Coming, and It’s Going to be Hilarious! First Time in Paperback for This Wildly Comic Look by a Best-Selling and Award-Winning Writer at Several Possible -- and Bizarre -- Tomorrows, Including Two Complete NovelsBen Bova, best-selling...

  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Sci

    Eleven essential classics in one volumeThis volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a lit...

  • End of Exile

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    The Exiles Trilogy - 3

    Born and brought up on a space ship that is slowly deteriorating, Linc discovers its secrets and the way to get the remaining occupants to their ultimate destination....



  • Starcrossed

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    THEY WERE STARCROSSED -- IN LOVE AND OUTER SPACE "The Starcrossed" It was the perfect 21st century program, with the perfect cast of characters: he, the virile, fearless sky-hero--she, an exquisite, otherworldly maid. On camera, they would brav...

  • The Multiple Man

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    TERROR IN TRIPLICATE It began with the discovery of a murdered man in a back alley behind the President's hotel in Boston...a man whose body had to be deposited in an anonymous grave for reasons not even Meric Albano, the President's Press Secreta...

  • Millennium

    1999 COUNTDOWN TO MILLENNIUM ...to all-out nuclear war...to total human annihilation...to the end of the world! In a thriving colony far beneath the ancient crater-marked crust of the Moon, the Russians and the Americans join together to launch t...

  • Colony

    IN THE FUTURE, EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT. BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED. The Earth has been poisoned by pollution, choked by overpopulation, and ravaged by the mindless greed of power-hungry corporations. A fragile peace is threatened by landless revoluti...

  • Aliens: 3 Novellas

  • Star Watchmen

    Modern mankind has spread throughout the stars and must join together to fight ancient enemies in STAR WATCHMAN. Set in the same universe as STAR CONQUERORS and THE DUELING MACHINE this follows the evolution of the Star Watch: Humans rule a giant gal...

  • The Best of Analog

    Fifteen stories from 1972-78. Favorites: "Child Of All Ages"-P.J.Plauger.-Melissa is twelve years old. She claims to be twenty-four hundred years old. "A Thing Of Beauty"-Norman Spinrad.- America has been destroyed by an insurrection. Mr.Ito of Japan...

  • Kinsman

    To Chet Kinsman, space held the promise of peace and beauty that Earth denied him - yet it was Kinsman who stained the purity of space with murder. His atonement shaped his life and the destiny of his planet - and drew him inexorably to use, and fina...

  • A Slight Miscalculation

    in Laugh Lines
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    The Future is Coming, and It’s Going to be Hilarious! First Time in Paperback for This Wildly Comic Look by a Best-Selling and Award-Winning Writer at Several Possible -- and Bizarre -- Tomorrows, Including Two Complete NovelsBen Bova, best-selling...

  • Vince's Dragon

    in Laugh Lines
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    The Future is Coming, and It’s Going to be Hilarious! First Time in Paperback for This Wildly Comic Look by a Best-Selling and Award-Winning Writer at Several Possible -- and Bizarre -- Tomorrows, Including Two Complete NovelsBen Bova, best-selling...



  • Notes to a Science Fiction Writer

  • Voyagers

    Voyagers - 1

    Keith Stoner, ex-astronaut turned physicist, knows the signal from space that his research station is receiving is not random. Whatever it is, it's real. And it's headed straight for Earth. He'll do anything to be the first man to go out to c...

  • The Angel's Gift

    in Laugh Lines
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    The Future is Coming, and It’s Going to be Hilarious! First Time in Paperback for This Wildly Comic Look by a Best-Selling and Award-Winning Writer at Several Possible -- and Bizarre -- Tomorrows, Including Two Complete NovelsBen Bova, best-selling...

  • The High Road

  • Star Peace: Assured Survival

    THE "STAR WARS" DEFENSE: THE SUREST ROAD TO PEACE The technology that fostered global nuclear terror can also provide a world freed from nuclear war....

  • Out of the Sun

    Out of the Sun is a thrilling short novel by Hugo Award-winning hard science fiction author Ben Bova. Written during the Cold War, it speculates on the use of what was then the cutting edge of military technology.Three virtually indestructible Cobra ...

  • Orion

    John O'Ryan is not a god . . . not exactly. He is an eternal warrior destined to combat the Dark Lord through all time for dominion of the Earth. Follow him, servant of a great race, as he battles his enemy down the halls of time, from the caves of o...

  • Escape Plus

    No one could move without being followed. No one could speak without being overheard. The almost sentient computer system was everywhere. The prison was billed as "escape-proof," and sofar that was true. But Danny Romano was not about to believe it.....

  • Workshops in Space

  • The Astral Mirror

    "What you are about to read deals with the stars, the wide galactic future that lies at our fingertips today... both factual articles and fictional stories. In a world where robots are causing human unemployment, spaceflight is so commonplace the new...



  • Privateers

    In Ben Bova's award-winning Privateers, America has ceded the heavens to the Tyrants--and the Renegades. The U.S. has abandoned its quest for the stars, and an old enemy has moved in to fill the void. The potential wealth of the universe is now in ma...

  • Test of Fire

    Cities became ovens. Grasslands became seas of flame. As the touch of dawn swept westward across the spinning planet Earth, its fiery finger killed everything in its path. Glaciers in Switzerland began to melt, floodwaters poured down on the burning,...

  • The Alien Within

    Voyagers - 2

    Multi-Hugo Award-winning author Ben Bova continues the story of Earth's first extraterrestrial contact with Voyagers II: The Alien Within.Eighteen years ago, astronaut Keith Stoner had been the American member of a joint U.S."Soviet mission to capt...

  • Prometheans

    Down with Pessimists!In a rich mix of fiction and science, fact and speculation, Ben Bova presents the Promethean pioneers whose technologic genius fuels our dreams --- and our future.Discover the exciting adventures of Sam Gunn --- first man to rig ...

  • City of Darkness

    He's passed his college entrance exams with flying colors. He can do pretty much whatever he wants. But what teenager Ron Morgan wants most is for his father to quit telling him what to do. Quit running his life. What better way to unwind than having...

  • Battle Station

    THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON WAS A CIVILIAN But those who have gone on to explore our newest boundary have almost all been military personnel. Space is truly the final frontier, and with the explorers and settlers will come the forces that will prese...

  • Kinsman Saga

    Having abandoned his family's Quaker roots, Chet Kinsman becomes a hot shot astronaut and the first space murderer, and although subsequently barred from space, he becomes determined to conquer this final frontier...

  • The Winds of Altair

    Earth is an old planet, and her teeming masses are running out of resources . . . and time. It is up to men such as Jeff Holman to discover a haven for Earth's millions. Altair VI is one such planet, and Holman is determined to transform this world i...

  • Crisis of the Month

    in Laugh Lines
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    The Future is Coming, and It’s Going to be Hilarious! First Time in Paperback for This Wildly Comic Look by a Best-Selling and Award-Winning Writer at Several Possible -- and Bizarre -- Tomorrows, Including Two Complete NovelsBen Bova, best-selling...

  • Peacekeepers

    PEACEKEEPERS Created by the Athens Peace Conference in the wake of nuclear war in the Middle East, assigned control of every nation's orbiting nuclear hardware, the International Peacekeeping Force's brief is to prevent any military action across na...



  • The Beauty of Light

    An exploration into the nature of light--written in an engaging style for a wide audience. The author of dozens of books on science, Bova traces the history of the study of light, from Galileo's attempt to measure its speed, to Einstein's theory of r...

  • Vengeance of Orion

    Fresh from a space battle, Orion finds himself thrust back in time to confront gods in the ancient world, to Greece where he must prevent the Greek army from destroying the citadel of Troy, to Jericho to bring down the walls, to Egypt... If he fails,...

  • Cyberbooks

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    The Future is Coming, and It’s Going to be Hilarious! First Time in Paperback for This Wildly Comic Look by a Best-Selling and Award-Winning Writer at Several Possible—and Bizarre—Tomorrows, Including Two Complete NovelsBen Bova, be...

  • Star Brothers

    Voyagers - 3

    Keith Stoner lay frozen in an alien spacecraft for fifteen long years; during that time he came to be something more than just an astronaut, just a man. Stoner became partly alien hismelf--merged with an alien intelligence embodied in the nanotechnol...

  • Future Crime

    Future Crime is a collection of six short stories and two novels by reknowned science fiction author Ben Bova!From the Foreword: "Will crime always be with us? Yes, in the sense that every society sets down rules of conduct, and there will be members...

  • As on a Darkling Plain

    As on a Darkling Plain is the chronological first book in The Others Saga by SF master and six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova.The discovery of huge alien machines operating on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is just the beginning of a nightmare for Dr...

  • Orion in the Dying Time

    A sequel to "Orion" and "Vengeance of Orion". At the end of the Cretaceous Period, Earth is in the grip of the dinosaurs. Their leader is a reptile, worshipped by the Egyptians as a powerful god for thousands of years. His mission is to destroy the C...

  • To Save the Sun

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    A young woman approaches the Emperor of the Hundred Worlds with a plan to save Earth--through astrophysics and engineering--before the Sun explodes and wipes out the last genetically unaltered humans in the universe. Reprint....

  • The Trikon Deception

    In the near future: Earth is an ecological nightmare, and humanity may well go the way of the dinosaurs. But overhead orbits salvation. A vast metallic island in space, Trikon conducts research too risky to be held on earth--research which could save...

  • Mars

    The Grand Tour - 1

    It is a world shrouded in mystery--a planet pocked by meteors, baked by ultraviolet light, and covered by endless deserts the color of dried blood. To this harsh and unforgiving planet travel the twenty-five astronauts of the international Mars mi...



  • Triumph

    In a gripping alternative history, Winston Churchill hatches a daring plot to assassinate Josef Stalin as World War II comes to a close and the Allies battle over the future of the globe.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Di...

  • Challenges

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    Bova offers a new collection of wide-ranging science fiction stories, essays about the onrushing future, and observations about the craft of SF itself.Included - among others - are such tales as the touching "The Man Who Hated Gravity," the satirical...

  • Empire Builders

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    The Grand Tour - 2

    Dan Randolph never plays by the rules. A hell-raising maverick with no patience for fools, he is admired by his friends, feared by his enemies, and desired by the world's loveliest women. Acting as a twenty-first privateer, Randolph broke the politic...

  • Sam Gunn, Unlimited

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  • To Fear the Light

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    Two hundred years ago, Adela de Montgarde, the brilliant astrophysicist, conceived the centuries-long plan to forestall the death of Earth's sun, thus preserving the original genetic material of the Empire of the Hundred Worlds-and of the Emperors wh...

  • Future Quartet: Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Inventio

    Basing their projections on technological, scientific, environmental, and biomedical forecasts, four leading science fiction authors--Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, and Charles Sheffield--offer unique, vastly different views of the future....

  • The Watchmen

    In Star Watchman, the human race reaches space and discovers that it had been preceded by its own ancestors, while in The Dueling Machine, a new machine allows people to settle differences in an imaginary world. Original....

  • Orion Among the Stars

    A new installment in the military science-fiction series by a Hugo Award-winner finds the superhuman, outer-space warrior John O'Ryan caught in the middle of a dangerous contest between a goddess and a god. Reprint....

  • Orion and the Conqueror

    John O'Ryan is Orion--more than human, less than a god, cast away on the seas of Time to do battle among the Creators for the future of mankind.

    Now the eternal warrior finds himself separated from his great love, Anya, and marooned in Macedon...

  • Death Dream

    It's the ultimate adult playground. Cyber World  will use the latest technology in computer produced  virtual reality to provide thrills and chills  beyond any ever experienced at a theme park. Here  children of all ages will live out their w...

  • The Great Moon Hoax

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    The Future is Coming, and It’s Going to be Hilarious! First Time in Paperback for This Wildly Comic Look by a Best-Selling and Award-Winning Writer at Several Possible -- and Bizarre -- Tomorrows, Including Two Complete NovelsBen Bova, best-selling...

  • Moonrise

    The Grand Tour - 3

    “[An] epic novel of lunar conquest” from the New York Times"bestselling and six-time Hugo Award"winning author of Mars (Orlando Sentinel).   In the twenty-first century, the world is on the brink of a scientific renaissance, about to bi...

  • Brothers

    What if, instead of being transplanted, hearts, livers, and kidneys could simply be regrown like a lizard's tail? This turns out to be a faint possibility in Arthur Marshak's genetic lab. He encourages his research staff to pursue it, but political a...

  • Viewpoint

  • Moonwar

    The Grand Tour - 4

    A lunar colony faces off with corrupt Earth forces intent on destroying it, from the New York Times"bestselling author of Moonrise.   This fast-paced, high-tech adventure is the continuation of the story of Douglas Stavenger, the Kennedy-esqu...

  • Twice Seven

    From the renowned author of Mars comes a collection of fantastical stories detailing situations involving famous figures, including the fate of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe brought to light by Howard Hughes, a futuristic time traveler w...

  • Sam Gunn Forever

    The incorrigible Sam Gunn, an interplanetary con man with a Napoleonic complex, undertakes a new set of adventures that have him scheming his way from one end of the solar system to the other. Original....

  • Return to Mars

    The New York Times"bestselling and six-time Hugo Award"winning author’s epic Grand Tour adventure continues.   Jamie Waterman is returning to the red planet, this time in charge of an expedition in which he hopes to demonstrate that one c...

  • Venus

    The Grand Tour - 6

    The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered with clouds of s...

  • Jupiter

    The Grand Tour - 7

    Grant Archer only wanted to study astrophysics. But the forces of the "New Morality," the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run 21st-century America, have other plans for him. To his distress, Grant is torn from his young bride and sent to a res...

  • The Precipice

    The Asteroid Wars - 1
    The Grand Tour - 8

    The Asteroid Wars have begun.... Dan Randolph is one of the richest men on Earth--a planet spiralling into environmental disaster. His bitter rival, Martin Humphries, is the fabulously wealthy heir to the Humphries Trust. Both men know that space-...

  • The Rock Rats

    The Asteroid Wars - 2
    The Grand Tour - 9

    Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her. For Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still...

  • Saturn

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    The Grand Tour - 10

    Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us:SATURNEarth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist polit...

  • Tales of the Grand Tour

    The Grand Tour - 11

    New tales of humanity's near-future exploration of the Solar System, from a science fiction master and award-winning author Ben BovaIn novels like Mars and Moonbase, and Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, as well as Privateers, The Precipice, and The Rock ...

  • The Silent War

    The Asteroid Wars - 3
    The Grand Tour - 12

    When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is led by indomitable Texan Pancho Lane, Humphries Space Systems by the rich and ruthless Martin Humphries, and their fight is over nothing less than resou...

  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers

    Eleven essential classics in one volume
    This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction a...

  • Powersat

    The Grand Tour - 13

    Two hundred thousand feet up, things go horribly wrong. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, falling to earth over a trail hundreds of miles long. And it its wake is the beginning of the most important mission in the history of ...

  • Mercury

    The Grand Tour - 14

    The planet closest to our Sun, Mercury is a rocky, barren, heat-scorched world. But there are those who hope to find wealth in its desolation. Saito Yamagata thinks Mercury's position makes it an ideal place to generate power to propel starships int...

  • Titan

    The Grand Tour - 15

    2095. After long months of travel, the gigantic colony ship Goddard has at last made orbit around Saturn, carrying a population of more than of 10,000 dissidents, rebels, extremists, and visionaries seeking a new life. Among Goddard's missions is the...

  • The Green Trap

    Microbiologist Michael Cochrane has been murdered. His brother Paul wants to find out who did it...and why. Accompanied by a beautiful industrial spy, Elena Sandoval, Paul follows the trail from California to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Along the ...

  • The Aftermath

    The Asteroid Wars - 4
    The Grand Tour - 16

    In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the ore-carrier Syracuse. With his wife and two children he plies the Asteroid Belt, hauling whatever cargo can be found. When the Syracuse ...

  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2008

    This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year's stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions for future science fiction and fantasy films, ar...

  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of the

    This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.Published in 1973 to ho...

  • Laugh Lines

    Ben Bova, best-selling and award-winning author of the "Grand Tour" and "Asteroid Wars" series, takes a sardonic look at the humorous possibilities of future technology. The Starcrossed: Bill Oxnard, a young technological genius, had perfected true...

  • Mars Life

    The Grand Tour - 17

    Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself ...

  • The Immortality Factor

    Provocative, gripping, startling: bestselling author Ben Bova delivers a knockout read with his trademark blend of cutting edge science and unrelenting suspense.... Some see stem-cell research as mankind's greatest scientific breakthrough. Others ...

  • The Return

    The Grand Tour - 18
    Voyagers - 4

    In the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically frozen. After his body was eventually returned to Ear...

  • Able One

    When a nuclear missile launched by a rogue North Korean faction explodes in space the resulting shockwave destroys the world's satellites, throwing global communication into chaos. The United States military satellites, designed to withstand such an ...

  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America

    Edited by multi Hugo Award-winning author Ben Bova, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas--chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America.

    There is ...

  • The Towers of Titan and Other Stories

    Five extraordinary stories by one of Science Fiction’s most revered writers. THE TOWERS OF TITAN -- Across the frozen cliffs they loomed -- the unbelievably ancient towers with the unimaginable engines deep inside them still pouring out their end...

  • The Hittite

    This is the tale of Lukka, the Hittite soldier who traveled across Greece in search of the vicious slave traders who kidnapped his wife and sons. He tracks them all the way to war-torn Troy. There he proves himself a warrior to rank with noble Hector...

  • Leviathans of Jupiter

    The Grand Tour - 19

    In Ben Bova's novel JUPITER, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter's hostile planetwide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environment and crushing ...

  • Bloodless Victory

    BLOODLESS VICTORY is a collection of short works by one of science fiction's grand masters: six time Hugo Award-winner, Ben Bova. Dr. Bova does not write many short stories. This volume includes five classic stories and a brand new story, "Bloodless ...

  • Power Play

    Jake Ross - 1

    Dr. Jake Ross, a university astronomer, wants nothing more than to teach a few classes each semester a nd continue on his research. However, he is being aggressively recruited to be the science advisor to Frank Tomlinson, an ambitious politician wit...

  • The Star Conquerors

    ReAnimus Press presents the first ever paperback edition of Ben Bova's most sought-after novel!SPECIAL COLLECTORS' EDITIONSix time Hugo winner Ben Bova's most sought-after and possibly best novel, THE STAR CONQUERORS, has been long out of print. Ther...

  • Escape!

    Danny wasn't a bad kid at heart, but the government put Danny in prison for a long list of crimes, with no end to his sentence. He had to get back to his girl. He had to get back to Laurie. Watched over at all times by a Big Brother-like sentient com...

  • Orion and King Arthur

    Orion has fought across time and space at the whims of his Creators, godlike beings from the future who toy with human history like spoiled children playing with dolls. Orion has been both assassin and hero, all the while striving to be reunited with...

  • Farside

    The Grand Tour - 20

    Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder. Telescopes on Earth have detected an Ea...

  • The Callahan Kids

    What would it be like to live on Mars? Find out in The Callahan Kids: Tales of Life on Mars, an anthology for middle-school readers created by science fiction writers and a team of engineers at 4Frontiers Corporation. The stories take place at Bradbu...

  • New Earth

    Star Quest Trilogy - 0.5
    The Grand Tour - 21

    The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispat...

  • Mars, Inc.

    How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape and bound by budget constrictions, that's for sure. No, what it will take is a helping of adventure, science, corporate powerplays, a generous dollop of sedu...

  • Maxwell's Demons

    We stand poised on the brink of godhood. The knowledge and wisdom that modern scientific research offers can help us to take the next evolutionary step, and transform ourselves into a race of intelligent beings who truly understand themselves and the...

  • Transhuman

    Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist has one joy in life, his ten-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When he learns that Angela has an inoperable brain tumor and is given less than six months to live, Abramson wants to try an experimental new t...

  • New Frontiers

    New Frontiers, fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from Ben Bova, six-time winner of the Hugo Award Frontiers can be found in all directions. Frontiers of time and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, ha...

  • Power Surge

    Jake Ross - 2

    The science advisor to a newly-elected freshman senator, Jake has crafted a comprehensive energy plan that employs innovative new technologies to make America the world's leader in energy production while simultaneously boosting the economy and prote...

  • Death Wave

    Star Quest Trilogy - 1
    The Grand Tour - 22

    In Ben Bova's previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system. They discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien AI survived, and it revealed to Jordan Kell that an explosion in the bl...

  • Apes and Angels

    Star Quest Trilogy - 2
    The Grand Tour - 23

    Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it. A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galax...

  • Survival

    Star Quest Trilogy - 3
    The Grand Tour - 24

    Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels. In Surivival, a human team sent to scout a few hundred lightyears in front of the death wave encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civi...

  • Power Failure

    Jake Ross - 3

    Award-winning writer Ben Bova returns with POWER FAILURE, another tense political thriller starring Jake Ross, science advisor to Senator Frank Tomlinson, as they continue their complex power maneuvers in this near future science fiction novel. D...

  • Earth

    The Grand Tour - 25

    Earth is the latest science fiction novel from multiple Hugo Award winner Ben Bova, author of Apes and Angels and Survival A wave of lethal gamma radiation is expanding from the core of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light, killing everythin...

  • Uranus

    Outer Planets - 1

    Ben Bova, author of Earth, continues his exploration of the future of a human-settled Solar System with the science fiction action adventure Uranus, the first of his Outer Planets trilogy. On a privately financed orbital habitat above the planet U...

  • Power Challenges

    Jake Ross - 4

    It is time to start the colonizing the solar system. Ex-astronaut, current space advisor, and all-out trouble shooter for the President, Jake Ross, is determined to make it happen. And what better way to return to America’s glory than by return...

  • Neptune

    Outer Planets - 2

    Hugo Award winner Ben Bova continues his grand tour of the human settled solar system with a fan-pleasing look at life in the Outer Planets, among the moons of Neptune.In the future, humanity has spread throughout the solar system, on planets and moo...

  • Sam Gunn Jr.

    The final completed novel by Ben BovaIntergalactic explorer, venture capitalist, and Casanova Sam Gunn may be gone, but his legacy lives on in his son, Sam Gunn Jr.In his first-ever adventure, Sam Gunn Jr. sets off to fulfill his father’s left-...

  • Answer, Please Answer

    Two soldiers stationed at an isolated outpost in Antarctica pick up mysterious signals coming from a distant star. As they decode the message, they uncover an alien civilization's history with nuclear energy - from its first discovery through its wea...

  • The Many Worlds of Science Fiction

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Award-Winning Books by Ben Bova

City of Darkness
1999 Audies -- Solo Narration-Male
Titan
2007 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ben Bova has published 115 books.

Ben Bova does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Answer, Please Answer, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Ben Bova, The Next Logical Step, was published in May 1962.

Yes. Ben Bova has 7 series.
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