# Ben Bova bibliography

List of published works by or about American hard science fiction author Ben Bova (1932–2020).

## Novels

* Out of the Sun. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 1968. ISBN 978-0-8125-3210-4.
* Escape! (1969)
* THX 1138 (with George Lucas) (1971), based on the film THX 1138
* As on a Darkling Plain (1972)
* When the Sky Burned (1972)
* Gremlins, Go Home! (with Gordon Dickson) (1974)
* The Starcrossed (1975)
* The Multiple Man (1976)
* City of Darkness (1976)
* ‘’ Colony ‘’ (1979)
* Test of Fire (1982) (A revised version of When the Sky Burned)
* The Winds of Altair (1973) (Revised 1983)
* Peacekeepers (1988)
* Cyberbooks (1989)
* The Trikon Deception (with Bill Pogue) (1992)
* Triumph (1993), ISBN 0-312-85359-9 (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)
* Death Dream (1994)
* Brothers. NEL. 1995. ISBN 0-450-61335-6. – expanded edition later republished as The Immortality Factor
* The Green Trap (2006)
* Laugh Lines (2008) (A collection of short stories, 'The Starcrossed' and 'Cyberbooks')
* The Immortality Factor. Tor. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7653-0525-1. – earlier shorter edition published as Brothers
* The Hittite (2010) (A retelling of the Iliad, linking Homer's text with known history of the Hittite Empire )
* Able One (2010)
* Mars, Inc.: The Billionaire's Club. Baen. 2013. ISBN 978-1-4516-3934-6. – a "parallel" version of the exploration of Mars, where private enterprise (and not a government program) drives the conquest.
* Transhuman (2014)
* Rescue Mode (with Les Johnson) (2014)
* Space Station Down (with Doug Beason) (2020)

### Exiles series

* Exiled from Earth (1971)
* Flight of Exiles (1972)
* End of Exile (1975)

### Grand Tour series

Bova's Grand Tour series of novels presents a fictional treatment of human colonization of the Solar System in the late 21st century. Following Bova's suggested chronology, these are:
* Powersat (2005)
* Privateers (1985)
* Empire Builders (1993)
* Mars (1992)
* Moonrise (1996; The Moonbase Saga, v. 1)
* Moonwar (1998; The Moonbase Saga, v. 2)
* Return to Mars (1999)
* The Precipice (2001; The Asteroid Wars, v. 1)
* Farside (2013)
* Jupiter (2001)
* The Rock Rats (2002; The Asteroid Wars, v. 2)
* The Silent War (2004; The Asteroid Wars, v. 3)
* The Aftermath (2007; The Asteroid Wars, v. 4)
* Saturn (2002)
* Leviathans of Jupiter (Feb 2011)
* Titan (2006)
* Mercury (2005)
* Mars Life (2008)
* Venus (2000)
* The Return (2009)
* New Earth (2013)
* 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
* Survival (2017) Book Three of the Star Quest Trilogy
* Earth (2019)
* Uranus (2020)
* Neptune (2021)
* Pluto (2022/2025) (posthumously completed by Les Johnson)
Bova also published a short story collection including stories that span much of the timeline, called Tales of the Grand Tour (2004)

### Sam Gunn series

* Sam Gunn, Unlimited (1993) (short-story collection)
* Sam Gunn Forever (1998) (short-story collection)
* Sam Gunn Omnibus (2007)
* Sam Gunn, Jr (2022) (posthumous)

### Chet Kinsman series

* The Weathermakers (1967)
* Millennium (1976)
* Colony (1978)
* Kinsman (1979)
* The Kinsman Saga (1987) (combines Millennium (1976) and Kinsman (1979); includes introduction and narrative by Bova explaining the reworking of these two novels)

### Jake Ross series

* Power Play (2011)
* Power Surge (2015)
* Power Failure (2018)
* Power Challenges (2021)

### Orion series

* Orion (1984)
* Vengeance of Orion (1988)
* Orion in the Dying Time (1990)
* Orion and the Conqueror (1994)
* Orion Among the Stars (1995)
* Orion and King Arthur (2011)

### To Save the Sun series

* To Save the Sun (with A.J. Austin) (1992)
* To Fear the Light (with A.J. Austin) (1994)

### Voyagers series

* Voyagers (1981, volume I)
* The Alien Within (1986, volume II)
* Star Brothers (1990, volume III)
* The Return (2009, volume IV)

### Watchmen series

* The Star Conquerors (1959)
* Star Watchman (1964)
* The Dueling Machine (1969)

### Star Quest series

* New Earth (2013)
* Death Wave (2015)
* Apes and Angels (2016)
* Survival (2017)

## Short fiction
### 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)
* The Best of Bova: Volume 1 (2016)
* The Best of Bova: Volume 2 (2016)
* The Best of Bova: Volume 3 (2017)
* My Favorites (2020)

### Anthologies (edited)

* The Many Worlds of Science Fiction (1971), ISBN 0-525-34550-7
* The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two, (1973), Volume two A OCLC 12264834 and Volume two B OCLC 12264899
* Aliens. Orbit. 1977. ISBN 0-86007-958-9.
* The Best of the Nebulas (1989), ISBN 0-312-93175-1
* The Future Quartet: Earth in the Year 2042 (1995)
* Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (2008)
* Bova, Ben & Eric Choi, eds. (2014). Carbide tipped pens: seventeen tales of hard science fiction. New York: Tor.

### Stories

| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
| Appointment in Sinai | 1996 | Bova, Ben (June 1996). "Appointment in Sinai". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 116 (7): –. | Bova, Ben (1998). Twice seven. Avon Eos. ISBN 0-380-79741-0. Bova, Ben (2004). Tales of the Grand Tour. Tor. ISBN 0-7653-0722-7. | |

## Non-fiction

* The Milky Way Galaxy. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 1961.
* The amazing laser. Westminster Press. 1971.
* Man Changes the Weather. 1973.
* The Weather Changes Man. Addison-Wesley. 1974. ISBN 0-201-00555-7.
* In Quest of Quasars. Signet. 1975. ISBN 0-451-61411-9.
* Starflight and Other Improbabilities. Westminster Press. 1973. ISBN 0-664-32520-3
* Notes to a Science Fiction Writer. Houghton Mifflin. 1975. ISBN 978-0684144344
* The High Road Houghton Mifflin. 1981. ISBN 0-395-31288-4
* Assured Survival: Putting The Star Wars Defense In Perspective. 1984. UG743.B68
* Welcome to Moonbase. Ballantine. 1987.
* The Beauty of Light. John Wiley & Sons. 1988. ISBN 0-471-62580-9.
* The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells. Writers Digest Books. 1994. ISBN 0-89879-600-8
* Immortality. 1998.
* Are We Alone in the Cosmos?. 1999.
* The Story of Light. 2001.
* "Sex in space". Science. F&SF. 100 (2): 124–129. Feb 2001.
* Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth. 2004.
* "Across My Life ...". Analog. 130 (1&2): 112–114. Jan–Feb 2010.
* "John W. Campbell, Jr". Special Feature. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (6): 51–55. June 2015.

## Critical studies and reviews of Bova's work
### Carbide tipped pens

* Sakers, Don (May 2015). "The Reference Library". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (5): 104–107.