Ben Bova bibliography explained

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

Novels

Book: Out of the Sun . registration . 1968 . Holt, Rinehart & Winston . 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), (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)
Book: Brothers . 1995 . NEL . 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')
Book: The Immortality Factor . 2009 . Tor . 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)
Book: Mars, Inc.: The Billionaire's Club . 2013 . Baen . 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

See main article: Grand Tour (novel 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]

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

Orion (1984)
Vengeance of Orion (1988)
Orion in the Dying Time (1990)
Orion and the Conqueror (1994)
Orion Among the Stars (1995)
Orion and King Arthur (2011)

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

The Star Conquerors (1959)
Star Watchman (1964)
The Dueling Machine (1969)

Star Quest series

New Earth (2013)
Death Wave (2015)
Apes and Angels (2016)
Survival (2017)

Short fiction

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)

The Many Worlds of Science Fiction (1971),
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two, (1973), Volume two A and Volume two B
Book: Aliens . 1977 . Orbit . 0-86007-958-9 .
The Best of the Nebulas (1989),
The Future Quartet: Earth in the Year 2042 (1995)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (2008)
Book: Bova, Ben . Eric Choi . amp . Carbide tipped pens: seventeen tales of hard science fiction . New York . Tor . 2014 . 9780765334305-->.

Stories

width=25%	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 . –.	Book: Bova, Ben . Twice seven . 1998 . Avon Eos . 0-380-79741-0 . Book: Bova, Ben . Tales of the Grand Tour . 2004 . Tor . 0-7653-0722-7 .

Non-fiction

Book: The Milky Way Galaxy. 1961 . Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
Book:
Man Changes the Weather. 1973.
Book: The Weather Changes Man. 1974 . Addison-Wesley. 0-201-00555-7. ^[6]
Book: In Quest of Quasars. 1975 . Signet. 0-451-61411-9.
Starflight and Other Improbabilities. Westminster Press. 1973.
Notes to a Science Fiction Writer. Houghton Mifflin. 1975.
The High Road Houghton Mifflin. 1981.
Assured Survival: Putting The Star Wars Defense In Perspective. 1984. UG743.B68
Welcome to Moonbase. Ballantine. 1987.
Book: The Beauty of Light . 1988 . John Wiley & Sons . 0-471-62580-9 .
The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells. Writers Digest Books. 1994.
Immortality. 1998.
Are We Alone in the Cosmos?. 1999.
The Story of Light. 2001.
- Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth. 2004.
Jan–Feb 2010 . Across My Life ... . . 130 . 1&2 . 112–114.

Critical studies and reviews of Bova's work

Carbide tipped pens

Sakers, Don . Don Sakers . May 2015 . The Reference Library . Analog Science Fiction and Fact . 135 . 5 . 104–107.

Notes and References

Web site: Ben Bova. Fantastic Fiction.
Web site: Ben Bova. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. 2017-07-10.
Web site: Bova . Ben . Baen Book's product page for Mars, Inc . 2015-03-02.
Web site: Bova . Ben . Grand Tour Chronology . 2016-07-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200243/http://www.benbova.com/gradtourlist.html . 2016-03-03 .
Briefly reviewed by Don Sakers in the July–August 2016 issue of Analog, pp.185–188.
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