Ben Bova
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Benjamin William Bova (born November 8, 1932) is an American science fiction author and editor.
Biographical timeline
- 8 November 1932 - born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1953 - married Rose Cucinotta (divorced 1974)
- 1954 - received Bachelor of Science from Temple University
He 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.
Ben Bova is the President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past President of Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America [link] (SFWA).
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. Bova is an avid fencer and organized Avco Everett's fencing club. Bova is also an environmentalist of the Ansel Adams variety and met Adams by chance. Bova wants to conserve the Earth but rejects Luddism.
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 a hundred books, non-fiction as well as science fiction. In 2000, he was the Author Guest of Honor at the worldcon, Chicon 2000.
Bibliography
Collections
- Forward in Time (1973)
- Maxwell's Demons (1979)
- Escape Plus (1984)
- The Astral Mirror (1985)
- Prometheans (1986)
- Kinsman Saga (1987)
- Battle Station (1987)
- Future Crime (1990)
- Challenges (1994)
- The Future Quartet - Earth in the Year 2042 (1995)
- Twice Seven (1998)
Exiles
- Exiled from Earth (1971)
- Flight of Exiles (1972)
- End of Exile (1975)
- Mars (1992)
- Empire Builders (1993)
- Return to Mars (1999)
- Venus (2000)
- Jupiter (2001)
- Saturn (2002)
- Tales of the Grand Tour (2004)
- Mercury (2005)
- Titan (2006)
Moonrise
- Moonrise (1996)
- Moonwar (1998)
Asteroid Wars
- The Precipice (2001)
- The Rock Rats (2002)
- The Silent War (2004)
- Powersat (2005)
Non-series Novels
- The Weathermakers (1967)
- Out of the Sun (1968)
- Escape! (1969)
- THX 1138 (with George Lucas) (1971) based on THX 1138
- As on a Darkling Plain (1972)
- The Winds of Altair (1983)
- Privateers (1985) (Contains a character from the Grand Tour series, but the history is different, such as the Soviet Union still existing.)
- When the Sky Burned (1972)
- Gremlins, Go Home! (with Gordon Dickson) (1974)
- The Starcrossed (1975)
- City of Darkness (1976)
- Millennium (1976)
- The Multiple Man (1967)
- Colony (1978)
- Test of Fire (1982)
- Peacekeepers (1988)
- Cyberbooks (1989)
- The Trikon Deception (with Bill Pogue) (1992)
- Triumph (1993) Alternate history work set at the end of World War II in which Winston Churchill plots the assassination of Joseph Stalin, and in which Franklin D. Roosevelt lives past 1945. ISBN 0312853599
- Death Dream (1994)
- Brothers (1996)
- The Green Trap (2006)
Orion
- Orion (1984)
- Vengeance of Orion (1988)
- Orion in the Dying Time (1990)
- Orion and the Conqueror (1994)
- Orion Among the Stars (1995)
Sam Gunn
- Sam Gunn, Unlimited (1993)
- Sam Gunn Forever (1998)
To Save the Sun
- To Save the Sun (with AJ Austin) (1992)
- To Fear the Light (with AJ Austin) (1994)
Voyagers
- Voyagers (1981)
- The Alien Within (1986)
- Star Brothers (1990)
Watchmen
- The Star Conquerors (1959)
- Star Watchman (1964)
- The Dueling Machine (1969)
Non-Fiction
- Man Changes the Weather (1973)
- The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells Writers Digest Books, 1994 ISBN 0898796008 (a guide to writing fiction of any genre)
- Immortality (1998)
- Are We Alone in the Cosmos? (1999)
- Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth (2004)
See also
External links
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