Ben Bova

Ben Bova has written more than one hundred twenty futuristic novels and nonfiction books, and has been 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, 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 is a frequent commentator on radio and television and a widely-popular lecturer. His articles, opinion pieces and reviews have appeared in Scientific American, Nature, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other newspapers and magazines. Earlier, he was an award-winning editor and an executive in the aerospace industry. Bova has taught science fiction at Harvard University and at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, where he has also directed film courses. Bova currently lives in Florida.
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by Ben Bova and Gordon R. Dickson
Target Rich Environment, Volume 2
by Larry Correia
Edited by Eric Flint and Walt Boyes
Edited by Michael Z. Williamson
by Tom Kratman
by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
TWO MASTERS OF HUMOROUS SCIENCE FICTION TOGETHER!
Elves. Leprechauns. Gremlins. Call them what you like.
These little dudes may be the stuff of legend, but they're just as real as you and me. Far from the mythical, magical creatures of rumor, they are actually tiny aliens, marooned for centuries on this miserable mudball known as Earth. And they want just one thing: OFF!
Now, human technology may finally make a reality of their dreams to leave this pathetic planet behind. NASA has a new rocket and it's Mars-bound. All the gremlins need do is hijack it and set a course for their homeworld of Gremla.
The only thing lacking is a hapless human accomplice . . .
SKU: 9781982124243
$7.99
ISBN: 9781982124243
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Two novels in Bova's Star Watchmen series in one volume for the first time. "Combining excitement, adventure, plausibility, and technical knowledge with a flair for storytelling, Mr. Bova takes us into the not-so distant future.... Excellent!"?Kirkus
ISBN: 0671875981
US Price: $5.99
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by Steve White
by P. C. Hodgell
by David Drake
by Ben Bova
by Tony Daniel
by Larry Correia
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.
SKU: 9781481482592
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ISBN: 9781481482592
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by Ben Bova
by Michael Z. Williamson
by David Weber
by Timothy Zahn
Wing Commander: Freedom Flight
by Mercedes Lackey and Ellen Guon
by Tony Daniel
by David Weber and Timothy Zahn
by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
VOLUME #2 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 #2 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.
SKU: 9781476781594
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ISBN: 9781476781594
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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.
SKU: 9781476781211
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ISBN: 9781476781211
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Computer genius Carl Lewis has invented the cyberbook, an electronic device that instantly and inexpensively brings the written word to the masses. But not everyone warms to Carl's ideas. Add corporate spies, authors threatening to strike, and a wave of mysterious murders, and you have Ben Bova at his best.
Cyberbooks also appears in Laugh Lines
SKU: 9781625794444
$5.00
The first human mission to Mars meets with near‑disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it. The ship is too far from Earth to simply turn around and return home. The eight‑person crew must ride their crippled ship to Mars while they desperately struggle to survive.
On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue. The whole human space flight program hangs in the balance. And if the astronauts can’t nurse their ship to Mars and back, the voyagers will become either the first Martian colonists—or the first humans to perish on another planet.
The first human mission to Mars meets with near‑disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it. The ship is too far from Earth to simply turn around and return home. The eight‑person crew must ride their crippled ship to Mars while they desperately struggle to survive.
On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue. The whole human space flight program hangs in the balance. And if the astronauts can’t nurse their ship to Mars and back, the voyagers will become either the first Martian colonists—or the first humans to perish on another planet.
Listen to the authors discuss the book here on the Baen Free Radio Hour.
SKU: 9781476736471
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ISBN: 9781476736471
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ISBN: 9781476781037
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W201406 June 2014 Monthly Baen Bundle
1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies
by Eric Flint and Charles E. Gannon
by Ben Bova and Les Johnson
by P.C. Hodgell
by Sarah Hoyt
The Honor of the Queen, Second Edition
by David Weber
Warbound: Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles
by Larry Correia
by Steve White
by L. Sprague de Camp
How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape and bound by budget constrictions, that’s for sure. No, what it will take is a helping of adventure, science, corporate powerplays, a generous dollop of seduction—both in and out of the boardroom—and money, money, money!
Art Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a driving vision: send humans to Mars. The government has utterly failed, but Thrasher has got the plan to accomplish such a feat: form a “club” or billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. But these are men and women who are tough cookies, addicted to a profitable bottom‑line, and disdainful of pie‑in‑the‑sky dreamers who want to use their cash to make somebody else’s dreams come true.
But Thrasher is different from the other dreamers in an important regard: he’s a billionaire himself, and the president of a successful company. But it’s going to take all his wiles as a captain of industry and master manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks and sabotage—and get a rocket full of scientist, engineers, visionaries, and dreamers on their way to the Red Planet.
The man for the job has arrived. Art Thrasher is prepared to do whatever it takes to humans on Mars—or die trying!
How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape and bound by budget constrictions, that’s for sure. No, what it will take is a helping of adventure, science, corporate powerplays, a generous dollop of seduction—both in and out of the boardroom—and money, money, money!
Art Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a driving vision: send humans to Mars. The government has utterly failed, but Thrasher has got the plan to accomplish such a feat: form a “club” or billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. But these are men and women who are tough cookies, addicted to a profitable bottom-line, and disdainful of pie-in-the-sky dreamers who want to use their cash to make somebody else’s dreams come true.
But Thrasher is different from the other dreamers in an important regard: he’s a billionaire himself, and the president of a successful company. But it’s going to take all his wiles as a captain of industry and master manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks and sabotage—and get a rocket full of scientist, engineers, visionaries, and dreamers on their way to the Red Planet.
The man for the job has arrived. Art Thrasher is prepared to do whatever it takes to humans on Mars—or die trying!
About Mars, Inc.:
“. . .perfectly enjoyable as an SF book (could Bova write anything that wasn’t enjoyable?), Mars, Inc. has that torn-from-the-headline vibe that’s obviously intended for a larger audience. . . . the bottom line? Mars, Inc. has inspiration, excitement, thrills, romance, a dash of satir—and is a good, fun read . . . .”—Analog
"The Hugo winner returns to his most popular subject: the quest for Mars."—Publishers Weekly
Listen to the author discuss the book here on the Baen Free Radio Hour.
SKU: 9781451639346
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ISBN: 9781451639346
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ISBN: 9781476780399
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ISBN: 9781476780665
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Eleutherios
by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Seven Miles
by T.C. McCarthy
To Spec
by Charles E. Gannon
Skyspark
by Ryk E. Spoor
The Krumhorn and Misericorde
by Dave Freer
Pittsburgh Backyard and Garden
by Wen Spencer
Haunts of Guilty Minds
by John Lambshead
The Lamplighter Legacy
by Patrick O'Sullivan
Dog's Body
by Sarah A. Hoyt
The Sorcerer of Daigawa
by Jon F. Merz
Sweothi City
by Larry Correia
Out of True
by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Mars Farts
by Ben Bova
The Virgin of Hertogenbosch
by David Drake
Murder on the Hochflieger Ost
by Frank Chadwick
The intrigues of fourth-century-B.C. Macedonia and Greece are brought vividly to life in this sweeping historical fantasy featuring Orion, the time-tossed eternal warrior. To avert the possibility that the strands of space-time might unravel, Orion, rebellious instrument of the Creators previously encountered in Orion in the Dying Time , is sent to the court of Philip II to ensure that his son Alexander succeeds in his territorial conquests. The sounds, the scents and the sensibility of the ancient world permeate this well-wrought adventure. Book 3 of the Orion: Eternal Warrior Series.
Stunning SF from a six-time Hugo award winner.
SKU: 9781618249197
$5.00
Ben Bova, science fiction legend. Editor of Analog magazine, and then original editor at fabled Omni. Winner of six Hugo awards, the creator of the best-selling Grand Tour series along with innumerable sparkling short stories. Here are six Bova classics now available in ebook for the first time. You'll find idea-filled science fiction, interplanetary exploration, virtual reality thrillers, along with alternate history time travel classics featuring eternal warrior Orion.
by Ben Bova
by Ben Bova
by Ben Bova
by Ben Bova
by Ben Bova
by Ben Bova
SKU: BB201209
$24.00
At the end of the Cretaceous Period, Earth is in the grip of the dinosaurs. Their leader is the reptilian Set, worshipped by the Egyptians as a powerful god for thousands of years. His mission is to destroy the Creators--Orion's masters--and rule the planet. But one cantankerous eternal warrior is determined to stand in his way, and Orion has faced down powerful gods before, if none so deadly at Set. Book 1 of the Orion: Eternal Warrior Series.
Stunning SF from a six-time Hugo award winner.
SKU: 9781618249180
$5.00
Orion, the time-tossed eternal warrior, finds himself thrust back to the ancient world of Greece and must prevent the Greek army from destroying the citadel of Troy. If he fails, he will lose the only woman he has ever loved. But if he succeeds, the history of the world will be changed forever. Book 2 of the Orion: Eternal Warrior Series.
Stunning SF from a six-time Hugo award winner.
SKU: 9781618249104
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From acclaimed, Hugo award-winning, science fiction author, Ben Bova. The dynamic new President of the United States, James J. Halliday, seems determined to single-handedly turn an embittered nation around from economic, political, and social ruin. No one could be prouder than his devoted press secretary Meric Albano. But is the President accomplishing this monumental task alone? After one of the President's rare public appearances, a derelict is found dead nearby. A derelict who not only looks like the President, but whose blood, retinas, even fingerprints match those of the man in charge. Is the real President, the man Albano swore loyalty to, still in office? Is this part of a plot to topple American democracy? That's what Albano has to find out-if he doesn't, his life, as well as his country, will be destroyed.
Stunning SF from a six-time Hugo award winner.
SKU: 9781618249098
$5.00
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