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Overview: Dr. Ben Bova wrote more than 120 futuristic novels and nonfiction books, and was involved in science and high technology since the very beginnings of the space age. President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, Dr. Bova received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, "for fueling mankind’s imagination regarding the wonders of outer space." His 2006 novel TITAN received the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. In 2008 he won the Robert A. Heinlein Award "for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature."
Bova was born in Philadelphia and worked as a newspaper reporter for several years before joining Project Vanguard. His articles, opinion pieces and reviews appeared in Scientific American, Nature, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other newspapers and magazines.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Best of Bova: Volume 1
VOLUME 1 IN A STERLING COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM LEGENDARY HARD SCIENCE FICTION MASTER BEN BOVA. Selected stories from Bova’s amazing career at the center of science fiction and space advocacy. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling Grand Tour science fiction series, a six time Hugo award winner, and past president of the National Space Society.
Volume #1 of 3 of the very best of Ben Bova, a grand master of science fiction storytelling. These stories span the five decades of Bova’s incandescent career.
Here are tales of star-faring adventure, peril, and drama. Here are journeys into the mind-bending landscapes of virtual worlds and alternate realities. Here you’ll also find stories of humanity’s astounding future on Earth, on Mars, and in the Solar System beyond—stories that always get the science right. And Bova’s gathering of deeply realized, totally human characters are the heroic, brave, tricky, sometimes dastardly engineers, astronauts, corporate magnates, politicians, and scientists who will make these futures possible—and those who often find that the problems of tomorrow are always linked to human values, and human failings, that are as timeless as the stars.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
THE LONG WAY BACK
INSPIRATION
VINCE’S DRAGON
THE LAST DECISION
FITTING SUITS
A SMALL KINDNESS
BORN AGAIN
BLOOD OF TYRANTS
BUSHIDO
SAM GUNN
AMORALITY TALE
A COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
PRIORITIES
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
TO TOUCH A STAR
RISK ASSESSMENT
MEN OF GOOD WILL
FOEMAN, WHERE DO YOU FLEE?
OLD TIMER’S GAME
THE MAN WHO HATED GRAVITY
ZERO GEE
TEST IN ORBIT
FIFTEEN MILES
A SLIGHT MISCALCULATION
The Best of Bova Vol. III
Selected stories from Bova’s amazing career at the center of science fiction and space advocacy. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling Grand Tour science fiction series, a six time Hugo award winner, and past president of the National Space Society.
Volume #3 of 3 of the very best of Ben Bova, a grandmaster of science fiction storytelling. These stories span the five decades of Bova’s incandescent career.
Here are tales of star-faring adventure, peril, and drama. Here are journeys into the mind-bending landscapes of virtual worlds and alternate realities. Here you’ll also find stories of humanity’s astounding future on Earth, on Mars and in the Solar System beyond—stories that always get the science right. And Bova’s gathering of deeply realized, totally human characters are the heroic, brave, tricky, sometimes dastardly engineers, astronauts, corporate magnates, politicians, and scientists who will make these futures possible—and those who often find that the problems of tomorrow are always linked to human values, and human failings, that are as timeless as the stars.
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
SEPULCHER
THE MAN WHO. . .
CONSPIRACY THEORY
THE GREAT MOON HOAX OR A PRINCESS OF MARS
BUILD ME A MOUNTAIN
CRISIS OF THE MONTH
FREE ENTERPRISE
VISION
MOON RACE
SCHEHERAZADE AND THE STORYTELLERS
NUCLEAR AUTUMN
LOWER THE RIVER
THE CAFÉ COUP
REMEMBER, CAESAR
LIFE AS WE KNOW IT
DELTA VEE
WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS
THE BABE, THE IRON HORSE, AND MR. McGILLICUDDY
GREENHOUSE CHILL
BROTHERS
INTERDEPARTMENTAL MEMORANDUM
WORLD WAR 4.5
SAM BELOW PAR
HIGH JUMP
THE QUESTION
WATERBOT
DUEL IN THE SOMME
BLOODLESS VICTORY
MARS FARTS
A PALE BLUE DOT
STARS, WON’T YOU HIDE ME?
MONSTER SLAYER
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