The Others Series 01-03 & the omnibus of 02 – 03 & the magazine version of 03 by Ben Bova
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Overview: Benjamin William Bova died on the morning of November 29th, 2020.
He was an American writer. He was 88 years old.
Dr. Bova was the author of more than 200 works of science fact and fiction, including short stories, essays, newspaper articles, non-fiction works and novels. He was the six-time winner of the prestigious Hugo Award, the editor of Analog Magazine, and the editorial director of Omni Magazine. He was president of the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America.
It is a common wish to visit the future and report back to the present; to time travel. Ben Bova was that time traveler; his books and short stories: the journals from the future. In his various writings, Dr. Ben Bova predicted — years before they happened: the race to the Moon during the 1960s, satellites using the Sun to power the Earth’s technologies, the discovery of organic compounds in interstellar space, virtual reality and the internet, human cloning, the struggle to relieve the world of nuclear weapons, humans living on Mars, stem cell therapy, the discovery of ice and water on the Moon, electronic book publishing, robot police, and sex in space.
While he experimented with some fantasy works (his Orion series is a good example) most of his novels were science fiction: no stories of a rocket’s roar in empty space (where sound cannot travel). He believed that a reader should feel, immersed in one of his books and short stories, that you were walking on the rusty, rock strewn surface of Mars, enduring the planet’s light pull on your cheeks, and tasting the stale air in your suit helmet. Newton’s Laws were not suggestions.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
01 The Star Conquerors
THE STAR CONQUERORS (1959) is the story of Geoffrey Knowland, brilliant young Star Watch officer. He is in command of the Terran Confederation’s all-out battle against the mysterious Masters, rulers of the Milky Way galaxy.
For untold millions of years the star clusters in galactic space have been under the Masters’ control. Now, in an attempt to save Earth and the Terran Confederation, a desperate counterattack is underway to break the domination of the enemy.
Jeff knows that the Terrans fought and lost another interstellar war aginst an ancient enemy known only as the Others. The Terrans were crushed, their civilization wiped out, and Jeff fears the Masters are the Others, returned to conquer man again.
This unusual story takes you deep into the galaxy, far beyond our solar system, to worlds seldom explored by science fiction writers. Jeff and his friend Alan Bakerman, an escapee from life under the Masters, travel the vast distances of space and touch upon the homeworlds of many races, both human and nonhuman.
02 Star Watchman
Emil Vorgens is a Junior Star Watch Officer who is torn between his desire to seek a peaceful resolution and obey his superior’s instructions to use force when he is sent to the planet of Shinar to deal with rebellious activities.
03 The Dueling Machine
At first, the dueling machine seemed like a benign or even a helpful invention, allowing people to blow off steam and solve conflicts in a virtual reality-like environment. But before long, an evil tyrant discovers a way to use the device to inflict real and lasting harm on participants. Will the intrepid scientist who invented the technology be able to stop him before it’s too late?
The Dueling Machine Magazine version (ed. Jerry eBooks 2016)
analog SCIENCE FICTION->SCIENCE FACT, May 1963, Vol. LXXI, No. 3
Omnibus 02 – 03 The Watchmen
Together for the first time, the complete texts of Ben Bova’s Star Watchman and The Dueling Machine. Modern mankind has spread throughout the stars and must join together to fight ancient enemies in Star Watchman, and a harmless, dispute-settling machine is turned deadly in The Dueling Machine.
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The Others 00 (Prequel) As On A Darkling Plain here: [url]https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1293&t=812964&hilit=As+on+a+Darkling+Ben+Bova
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