Ben Bova

## About the Author

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* **Books:** Ben Bova Books

### Biography

Bova worked as a technical writer for Project Vanguard in the 1950s and later for the Avco Everett Research Laboratoryin the 1960s. when they conducted research in lasers and fluid dynamics. At Avco Everett he met Arthur R. Kantrowitz (later of the Foresight Institute).

In 1972, Bova became editor of Analog Science Fact & Fiction, after John W. Campbell's death in 1971. At Analog, Bova won six Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor. Bova served as the science advisor for the television series The Starlost and left in disgust after the airing of the first episode (1973). His novel The Starcrossed, loosely based on his experiences, featured a thinly veiled characterization of his friend and colleague Harlan Ellison. Bova dedicated the novel to "Cordwainer Bird", the pen name Ellison uses when he did not want to be associated with a television or film project.

In 1974, he wrote the screenplay for an episode of the children's science-fiction television series Land of the Lost, titled "The Search".

After leaving Analog in 1978, Bova went on to edit Omni, from 1978 to 1982. Bova holds the position of President Emeritus of the National Space Society and served as President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) from 1990 to 1992.

He appeared as the Guest of Honor at the Florida convention Necronomicon in 1995 and 2011. In 2000, he attended the 58th World Science Fiction Convention (Chicon 2000) as the Author Guest of Honor.

In 2007, Stuber/Parent Productions hired him as a consultant to provide insight into what the world may look like in the near future, for their film Repo Men (2010) starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. Also in 2007 he provided consulting services to Silver Pictures on the film adaptation of Richard K. Morgan's hardboiled cyberpunk science-fiction novel Altered Carbon (2002). He was awarded the Robert A. Heinlein Award in 2008 for his work in science fiction.

As of February 2016, Bova has written over 124 books, non-fiction as well as science fiction, drawing on his experiences to create fact and fiction writings rich with references to artificial hearts, artists, environmentalism, fencing and martial arts, lasers, nanotechnology, photography, and spaceflight.

## Series

### The Grand Tour series

* Genres: Hard Science Fiction, Colonization
* Theme: series of novels presents a fictional treatment of human colonization of the Solar System in the late 21st century.

### Jake Ross series

	1. Power Play (Jake Ross Book 1) (2011)
	2. Power Surge (Jake Ross Book 2) (2015)
	3. Power Failure (Jake Ross Book 3) (2018)

### Orion series

* Genres: Science Fiction/Fantasy
* Theme:

### To Save the Sun series

* Co-author: A.J. Austin
* Series list:
	1. To Save the Sun (To Save the Sun Book 1) (1992)
	2. To Fear the Light (To Save the Sun Book 1) (1994)

### Voyagers series

	1. Voyagers (1981, volume I)
	2. Voyagers II: The Alien Within (1986, volume II)
	3. Voyagers III: Star Brothers (1990, volume III)
	4. The Return (The Grand Tour) (2009, volume IV)

### Star Watch / Watchmen series

* The Star Conquerors (Star Watch / Watchmen #1) (1959)
* Star Watchman (Star Watch / Watchmen #2) (1964)
* The Dueling Machine (Star Watch / Watchmen #3) (1969)

### Star Quest Trilogy

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* Theme: Direct sequel to *New Earth (The Grand Tour)*, *See The Grand Tour series*
* Series list:
	1. Death Wave (The Grand Tour) (Star Quest Trilogy Book 1) (2015)
	2. Apes and Angels (The Grand Tour) (Star Quest Trilogy Book 2) (2016)
	3. Survival (The Grand Tour) (Star Quest Trilogy Book 3) (2017)

## Other Works

### Novels

* The Weather-Makers (1967)
* Out of the Sun (1968)
* Escape! (1970)
* THX 1138 (With: George Lucas) (1971)
* As On A Darkling Plain (1972)
* The Winds of Altair (1973)
* When the Sky Burned (1973)
* Gremlins Go Home (With: Gordon R. Dickson) (1974)
* The Starcrossed (1975)
* City Of Darkness (1976)
* Multiple Man (1976)
* Colony (1978)
* Test of Fire (1982)
* The Peacekeepers (1988)
* Cyberbooks (1989)
* The Trikon Deception (With: William R. Pogue) (1992)
* Triumph (1993)
* Death Dream (1994)
* Brothers (1995)
* The Green Trap (2006)
* The Immortality Factor (2009)
* Able One (2010)

The Hittite (2010)

* Transhuman (2014)
* Rescue Mode (With: Les Johnson) (2014)
* Space Station Down (2020)

### Anthologies edited

* The Many Worlds of Science Fiction (1971)
* The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two, (1973), Volume two A OCLC 12264834 and Volume two B OCLC 12264899
* 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, edited by Ben Bova and \* Eric Choi (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)