ben bova

There's hints buzzing around Facebook tonight (I think originally coming from a Twitter thread) that Ben Bova has succumbed to Coronavirus and passed on. Does anyone have any updates on this?

I saw this for pre order on the Forbidden Planet website and thought it looked interesting. "A wave of lethal gamma radiation is expanding from the core of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light, killing everything in its path. The countdown to when the death wave will reach Earth and the...

Mercury Ben Bova Tor, May 2005, $24.95, 320 pp. ISBN: 0765304120 Industrialist Saito Yamagata died from cancer, but his body was frozen, eventually nanotechnology provided a remedy, and cured him; he has a second chance at life and plans to live it to the fullest. He plans to provide mankind a...

Titan Ben Bova Tor, Mar 2006, $25.95, 464 pp. ISBN: 0765304139 In 2095, the man-made space habitat Goddard with ten thousand on board also goes into orbit around Saturn. The Goddard sends explorer spacecraft Titan Alpha to the surface of the Saturn moon of TITAN seeking evidence of any form of...

The Sam Gunn Omnibus Ben Bova Tor, Feb 2007, $29.95 ISBN: 076531617X If you have to ask who Sam Gunn is, then you probably need to pass on the exploits of this space faring hero (antihero to bureaucrats and business moguls) who vanished like an Alice down a black hole during one of his Grand...

The Aftermath Ben Bova Tor, Aug 2007, $24.95 ISBN 9780765304148 The Asteroid Wars (see THE PRECIPICE, THE ROCK RATS, and THE SILENT WAR) are for now over as a fragile cessation of hostility has occurred. In this tentative solar system peace, Victor Zacharius ekes out a living by carrying ore...

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America Edited by Ben Bova Tor, Apr 2008, $29.95 ISBN: 9780765305329 The follow up to Volume Two A, which also like this anthology, contains...

Mars Life Ben Bova Tor, Aug 2008, $24.95 ISBN 9780765317872 In his first trip to Mars, Native American geologist Jamie Waterman discovered proof that life existed on the red planet when he found the ruins of cliff dwellings. He wants to return to continue his anthropological studies of the dead...

The Immortality Factor Ben Bova Tor, Apr 14 2009, $25.95 ISBN: 9780765305251 Grenford Laboratory Director Arthur Marshak discovers a method for human organ regeneration that enables the host body to replace ailing parts. The announcement causes a tsunami of support and criticism. Some called...

Able One Ben Bova Tor, Feb 2 2010, $24.99 ISBN: 9780765323866 The North Korean army launches a nuclear missile into space. When they ignite the missile the subsequent explosion causes electromagnetic shockwaves. Several key communication satellites are destroyed and global communication is...

Leviathans of Jupiter Ben Bova Tor, $24.99 ISBN 9780765317889 Two decades ago physicist Grant Archer and his team encountered the Leviathans of Jupiter in the worldwide ocean (see Jupiter). When one of these beasts saved his life and that of his crew as their ship sank, he knew they had to be...

Orion and King Arthur Ben Bova Tor, Jul 3 2012, $25.99 ISBN 9780765330178 Aten of the futuristic Creators sends his time traveling knight Orion to Britannia just after the Romans are gone. The archipelago is wrought with feral rivals with no regard for civilians as they seek to be the one high...

Mars, Inc. Ben Bova Baen, Dec 3 2013, $25.00 ISBN 9781451639346 Billionaire Art Thrasher dreams of a manned mission to Mars. He concludes the incompetent government will not undertake the endeavor. Using his business reputation and personal assets as collateral, Art persuades wealthy...

I read The Exiles Trilogy and Orion and maybe some other stuff when I was younger but lost track of him for a long time. Can't even remember what triggered it but I picked up a book or two of him not long ago and before I could even read them I went to a library book sale and there was a stack...

In the near-future, a massive nuclear conflict has necessitated the formation of an International Peacekeeping Force (The IPF or Peacekeepers). The book is not about them, however, but a group of mercenaries that do the IPF's dirty work. The story was certainly well-written, but I had a lot of...

I just saw this book in the library and it sounds interesting but I'm in the middle of reading so may get it out when I've finished the current book. I've never read any Bova but it sounds my kind of thing.kind of Clarke/Baxter/Benford territory. Anyone read it or his other books in the same...

Ive just finished reading TITAN, a 2006 book by Ben Bova, part of his "grand tour" series... I liked quite a lot the book. Hard sci-fi, but it opens his "grand tour" series (which deals with the colonization of the solar system) to something bigger... intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy...

I haven't read much by this author, but have previously thought of him as concentrating on hard SF. I was therefore surprised by the fact that Orion (in my opinion, at any rate, despite later plot twists) falls into the fantasy camp. The story begins in the present day and is told in the first...

Original review by Asteroid: It took a couple of goes to get into, but once you get past the slow beginning it's just a completely compelling read. I can't remember the last time I had so much trouble putting a book down. And once you've read this one you won;t ever have to read another Mars...

I did a search to see what interest there was in this, but found only two threads. The interest was there, but not focused, so even though I'm pretty new here, I thought I would start a thread of my own for it. Ben Bova has attempted to do something very ambitious, to write a novel or series...