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Ben Bova bibliography

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List of published works by or about American hard science fiction author Ben Bova (1932–2020).[1][2]

Novels

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  • Out of the Sun. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 1968. ISBN 978-0-8125-3210-4.
  • Escape! (1969)
  • THX 1138 (with George Lucas) (1971), based on the film THX 1138
  • As on a Darkling Plain (1972)
  • When the Sky Burned (1972)
  • Gremlins, Go Home! (with Gordon Dickson) (1974)
  • The Starcrossed (1975)
  • The Multiple Man (1976)
  • City of Darkness (1976)
  • ‘’ Colony ‘’ (1979)
  • Test of Fire (1982) (A revised version of When the Sky Burned)
  • The Winds of Altair (1973) (Revised 1983)
  • Peacekeepers (1988)
  • Cyberbooks (1989)
  • The Trikon Deception (with Bill Pogue) (1992)
  • Triumph (1993), ISBN 0-312-85359-9 (alternate-history work, set at the end of World War II, in which Winston Churchill plots the assassination of Joseph Stalin, and in which Franklin D. Roosevelt lives past 1945)
  • Death Dream (1994)
  • Brothers. NEL. 1995. ISBN 0-450-61335-6. – expanded edition later republished as The Immortality Factor
  • The Green Trap (2006)
  • Laugh Lines (2008) (A collection of short stories, 'The Starcrossed' and 'Cyberbooks')
  • The Immortality Factor. Tor. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7653-0525-1. – earlier shorter edition published as Brothers
  • The Hittite (2010) (A retelling of the Iliad, linking Homer's text with known history of the Hittite Empire )
  • Able One (2010)
  • Mars, Inc.: The Billionaire's Club. Baen. 2013. ISBN 978-1-4516-3934-6. – a "parallel" version of the exploration of Mars, where private enterprise (and not a government program) drives the conquest.[3]
  • Transhuman (2014)
  • Rescue Mode (with Les Johnson) (2014)
  • Space Station Down (with Doug Beason) (2020)
Exiles series
  • Exiled from Earth (1971)
  • Flight of Exiles (1972)
  • End of Exile (1975)
Grand Tour series

Bova's Grand Tour series of novels presents a fictional treatment of human colonization of the Solar System in the late 21st century. Following Bova's suggested chronology, these are:[4]

  • Powersat (2005)
  • Privateers (1985)
  • Empire Builders (1993)
  • Mars (1992)
  • Moonrise (1996; The Moonbase Saga, v. 1)
  • Moonwar (1998; The Moonbase Saga, v. 2)
  • Return to Mars (1999)
  • The Precipice (2001; The Asteroid Wars, v. 1)
  • Farside (2013)
  • Jupiter (2001)
  • The Rock Rats (2002; The Asteroid Wars, v. 2)
  • The Silent War (2004; The Asteroid Wars, v. 3)
  • The Aftermath (2007; The Asteroid Wars, v. 4)
  • Saturn (2002)
  • Leviathans of Jupiter (Feb 2011)
  • Titan (2006)
  • Mercury (2005)
  • Mars Life (2008)
  • Venus (2000)
  • The Return (2009)
  • New Earth (2013)
  • Death Wave (2015) Book One of the Star Quest Trilogy and a sequel to New Earth
  • Apes and Angels (2016) Book Two of the Star Quest Trilogy
  • Survival (2017) Book Three of the Star Quest Trilogy
  • Earth (2019)
  • Uranus (2020)
  • Neptune (2021)

Bova also published a short story collection including stories that span much of the timeline, called Tales of the Grand Tour (2004)[4]

Sam Gunn series
  • Sam Gunn, Unlimited (1993) (short-story collection)
  • Sam Gunn Forever (1998) (short-story collection)
  • Sam Gunn Omnibus (2007)
  • Sam Gunn, Jr (2022) (posthumous)
Chet Kinsman series
  • The Weathermakers (1967)
  • Millennium (1976)
  • Colony (1978)
  • Kinsman (1979)
  • The Kinsman Saga (1987) (combines Millennium (1976) and Kinsman (1979); includes introduction and narrative by Bova explaining the reworking of these two novels)
Jake Ross series
  • Power Play (2011)
  • Power Surge (2015)
  • Power Failure (2018)
  • Power Challenges (2021)
Orion series
To Save the Sun series
  • To Save the Sun (with A.J. Austin) (1992)
  • To Fear the Light (with A.J. Austin) (1994)
Voyagers series
  • Voyagers (1981, volume I)
  • The Alien Within (1986, volume II)
  • Star Brothers (1990, volume III)
  • The Return (2009, volume IV)
Watchmen series
Star Quest series
  • New Earth (2013)
  • Death Wave (2015)
  • Apes and Angels (2016)
  • Survival (2017)

Short fiction

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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)
  • The Best of Bova: Volume 1 (2016)[5]
  • The Best of Bova: Volume 2 (2016)
  • The Best of Bova: Volume 3 (2017)
  • My Favorites (2020)
Anthologies (edited)
Stories
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
Appointment in Sinai 1996 Bova, Ben (June 1996). "Appointment in Sinai". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 116 (7): –.

Bova, Ben (1998). Twice seven. Avon Eos. ISBN 0-380-79741-0.
Bova, Ben (2004). Tales of the Grand Tour. Tor. ISBN 0-7653-0722-7.

Non-fiction

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  • The Milky Way Galaxy. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 1961.
  • The amazing laser. Westminster Press. 1971.
  • Man Changes the Weather. 1973.
  • The Weather Changes Man. Addison-Wesley. 1974. ISBN 0-201-00555-7.[6]
  • In Quest of Quasars. Signet. 1975. ISBN 0-451-61411-9.
  • Starflight and Other Improbabilities. Westminster Press. 1973. ISBN 0-664-32520-3
  • Notes to a Science Fiction Writer. Houghton Mifflin. 1975. ISBN 978-0684144344
  • The High Road Houghton Mifflin. 1981. ISBN 0-395-31288-4
  • Assured Survival: Putting The Star Wars Defense In Perspective. 1984. UG743.B68
  • Welcome to Moonbase. Ballantine. 1987.
  • The Beauty of Light. John Wiley & Sons. 1988. ISBN 0-471-62580-9.
  • The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells. Writers Digest Books. 1994. ISBN 0-89879-600-8
  • Immortality. 1998.
  • Are We Alone in the Cosmos?. 1999.
  • The Story of Light. 2001.
  • "Sex in space". Science. F&SF. 100 (2): 124–129. Feb 2001.
  • Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth. 2004.
  • "Across My Life ...". Analog. 130 (1&2): 112–114. Jan–Feb 2010.
  • "John W. Campbell, Jr". Special Feature. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (6): 51–55. June 2015.

Critical studies and reviews of Bova's work

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  • Sakers, Don (May 2015). "The Reference Library". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (5): 104–107.

References

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  1. ^ "Ben Bova". Fantastic Fiction.
  2. ^ "Ben Bova". The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  3. ^ Bova, Ben. "Baen Book's product page for Mars, Inc". Retrieved 2015-03-02.
  4. ^ a b Bova, Ben. "Grand Tour Chronology". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-07-02.
  5. ^ Briefly reviewed by Don Sakers in the July–August 2016 issue of Analog, pp.185–188.
  6. ^ https://www.amazon.com/Weather-Changes-Man-Ben-Bova/dp/0201005557