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Ben Bova

Ben Bova in 1974
Born:	November 8, 1932 (age 74) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Occupation:	Novelist, short story author, essayist, journalist
Genres:	Science fiction
Debut works:	The Star Conquerors

Benjamin William Bova (born November 8, 1932) is an American science fiction author and editor. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Ben Bova at Minnicon 8(1974) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... Official language(s) English, Pennsylvania Dutch Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A literary genre is one of the divisions of literature into genres according to particular criteria such as literary technique, tone, or content. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Note that this partial list contains some authors whose works of fantastic fiction would today be called science fiction, even if they predate, or did not work in that genre. ...

Biographical timeline

• 8 November 1932 - born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1953 - married Rosa Cucinotta (divorced 1974)
• 1954 - received Bachelor of Science from Temple University

In 1971 he became editor of Analog Science Fiction after John W. Campbell's death; after leaving Analog, he went on to edit Omni Magazine during 1978-1982. November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ... Temple University is a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ... Astounding Stories was a seminal science fiction magazine founded in 1930. ... The cover of , volume 1, with a picture of Campbell drawn by Frank Kelly Freas John Wood Campbell, Jr. ... Omni was a magazine which contained both articles on science fact and short works of science fiction. ...

He was the science advisor for the failed television series The Starlost, leaving in disgust after the airing of the first episode; his novel The Starcrossed was loosely based on his experiences and featured a thinly veiled characterization of his friend and colleague Harlan Ellison. He dedicated the novel to "Cordwainer Bird", the pen name Harlan Ellison uses when he does not want to be associated with a television or film project. The Starlost was a Canadian-produced science fiction television series devised by writer Harlan Ellison and broadcast in 1973 on CTV in Canada and on NBC in the United States. ... Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, essays, and criticism. ...

Ben Bova is the President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past President of Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America [1] (SFWA). National Space Society logo The National Space Society (NSS) is an international nonprofit 501(c)(3), educational, and scientific organization specializing in space advocacy. ... Science Fiction Writers of America, or SFWA, (SFWA is pronounced seff-wah) was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight and James Blish. ... Science Fiction Writers of America, or SFWA, (SFWA is pronounced seff-wah) was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight and James Blish. ...

Bova was a technical writer for Project Vanguard and later for Avco Everett in the 1960s when they did research in lasers and fluid dynamics. It was there that he met Arthur R. Kantrowitz later of the Foresight Institute. Bova is an avid fencer and organized Avco Everett's fencing club. Bova is also an environmentalist of the Ansel Adams variety and met Adams by chance. Bova wants to conserve the Earth but rejects Luddism. Vanguard Rocket Project Vanguard was the name given to the first United States program that was commissioned to design and launch the first artificial satellite into Earth orbit. ... For alternative meanings see laser (disambiguation). ... Fluid dynamics is the sub-discipline of fluid mechanics dealing with fluids (liquids and gases) in motion. ... Arthur R. Kantrowitz (born 1913) is an American engineer. ... This article reads like an advertisement, and therefore is not neutral in tone. ... Fencing advertisement for the 1900 Summer Olympic Games This article is about the sport, which is distinguished from stage fencing and academic fencing (mensur). ... The Tetons - Snake River (1942) by Ansel Adams Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer, best known for his black and white photographs of Californias Yosemite Valley. ... The Luddites were a group of English workers in the early 1800s who protested – often by destroying machines – against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution that they felt threatened their jobs. ...

Bova went back to school in the '80s, earning an MA in communications in 1987 and a Ph.D. in 1996. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Bova has drawn on these meetings and experiences to create fact and fiction writings rich with references to spaceflight, lasers, artificial hearts, nanotechnology, environmentalism, fencing and martial arts, photography and artists. ISS in earth orbit. ... For other uses, see Laser (disambiguation). ... An artificial heart is a device that is implanted into the body to replace the original biological heart. ... Buckminsterfullerene C60, also known as the buckyball, is the simplest of the carbon structures known as fullerenes. ... For the psychology topic, see Environmental psychology. ... Fencing advertisement for the 1900 Summer Olympic Games This article is about the sport, which is distinguished from stage fencing and academic fencing (mensur). ... Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ... Photography is the process of making pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a sensor or film. ... The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practising the arts and/or demonstrating an art. ...

Bova is the author of over a hundred books, non-fiction as well as science fiction. In 2000, he was the Author Guest of Honor at the worldcon, Chicon 2000. It has been suggested that World Science Fiction Society be merged into this article or section. ... The 58th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) was Chicon 2000, which was held in Chicago, USA August 31- September 4, 2000. ...

Bibliography

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)
• The Future Quartet - Earth in the Year 2042 (1995)
• Twice Seven (1998)

Exiles

• Exiled from Earth (1971)
• Flight of Exiles (1972)
• End of Exile (1975)

Grand Tour

• Mars (1992)
• Empire Builders (1993)
• Return to Mars (1999)
• Venus (2000)
• Jupiter (2001)
• Saturn (2002)
• Tales of the Grand Tour (2004)
• Mercury (2005)
• Powersat (2005)
• Titan (2006)
• An Upcoming 3rd Mars Book (200?)
• Moonrise (Part of the Grand Tour)
  • Moonrise (1996)
  • Moonwar (1998)

• Asteroid Wars (Part of the Grand Tour)
  • The Precipice (2001)
  • The Rock Rats (2002)
  • The Silent War (2004)
  • The Aftermath (2007)

• Sam Gunn (Part of the Grand Tour)
  • Sam Gunn, Unlimited (1993)
  • Sam Gunn Forever (1998)
  • Sam Gunn Ominbus (2007)

The Grand Tour is a series of novels written by science fiction author Ben Bova. ...

Non-series novels

• The Weathermakers (1967)
• Out of the Sun (1968)
• Escape! (1969)
• THX 1138 (with George Lucas) (1971) based on the film THX 1138
• As on a Darkling Plain (1972)
• The Winds of Altair (1983)
• Privateers (1985) (Contains a character from the Grand Tour series, but the history is different, such as the Soviet Union still existing.)
• When the Sky Burned (1972)
• Gremlins, Go Home! (with Gordon Dickson) (1974)
• The Starcrossed (1975)
• City of Darkness (1976)
• Millennium (1976)
• The Multiple Man (1967)
• Colony (1978)
• Test of Fire (1982)
• "The Kinsman Saga" (1987) Combines "As on a Darkling Plain" (1972) and "Millennium" (1976). Contains introduction and narrative explaining his re-working of these two novels.
• Peacekeepers (1988)
• Cyberbooks (1989)
• The Trikon Deception (with Bill Pogue) (1992)
• Triumph (1993) 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. ISBN 0-312-85359-9
• Death Dream (1994)
• Brothers (1996)
• The Green Trap (2006)

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Orion

• Orion (1984)
• Vengeance of Orion (1988)
• Orion in the Dying Time (1990)
• Orion and the Conqueror (1994)
• Orion Among the Stars (1995)

To Save the Sun

• To Save the Sun (with AJ Austin) (1992)
• To Fear the Light (with AJ Austin) (1994)

Voyagers

• Voyagers (1981)
• The Alien Within (1986)
• Star Brothers (1990)

Watchmen

• The Star Conquerors (1959) (download free copy at [2] )
• Star Watchman (1964)
• The Dueling Machine (1969)

Non-fiction

• Man Changes the Weather (1973)
• The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells Writers Digest Books, 1994 ISBN 0-89879-600-8 (a guide to writing fiction of any genre)
• Immortality (1998)
• Are We Alone in the Cosmos? (1999)
• Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth (2004)
• The Story of Light (2001)

See also

• Science fiction:
  • authors
  • novels
  • short stories
  • television shows

Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Note that this partial list contains some authors whose works of fantastic fiction would today be called science fiction, even if they predate, or did not work in that genre. ... Some notable science fiction novels, in alphabetical order by title: Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z  - External links 0–9 1632 by Eric Flint 1633 by... This is a non-comprehensive list of short stories with significant science fiction elements. ... List of television shows with significant science fiction elements. ...

External links

• Ben Bova official site, sponsored by author
• Ben Bova at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• An audio interview with Ben Bova (MP3 format) from Hour 25
• A Free PDF copy of Star Conquerors