Ben Bova bibliography

List of published works by or about American hard science fiction author Ben Bova.

Novels

Escape! THX 1138, based on the film THX 1138

As on a Darkling Plain When the Sky Burned Gremlins, Go Home! The Starcrossed The Multiple Man City of Darkness Colony Test of Fire The Winds of Altair Peacekeepers Cyberbooks The Trikon Deception Triumph, Death Dream
– expanded edition later republished as The Immortality FactorThe Green Trap Laugh Lines
– earlier shorter edition published as BrothersThe Hittite Able One
– a "parallel" version of the exploration of Mars, where private enterprise drives the conquest.Transhuman Rescue Mode Space Station Down

;Exiles seriesExiled from Earth Flight of Exiles End of Exile
;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:
Bova also published a short story collection including stories that span much of the timeline, called Tales of the Grand Tour
;Sam Gunn series Sam Gunn, Unlimited Sam Gunn Forever Sam Gunn Omnibus Sam Gunn, Jr
;Chet Kinsman seriesThe Weathermakers Millennium Colony Kinsman The Kinsman Saga and Kinsman
;Jake Ross seriesPower Play Power Surge Power Failure Power Challenges
;Orion series

Orion Vengeance of Orion Orion in the Dying Time Orion and the Conqueror Orion Among the Stars Orion and King Arthur

;To Save the Sun seriesTo Save the Sun To Fear the Light
;Voyagers series Voyagers The Alien Within Star Brothers The Return
;Watchmen seriesThe Star Conquerors Star Watchman The Dueling Machine
;Star Quest seriesNew Earth Death Wave Apes and Angels

''Survival''

Short fiction

;CollectionsForward in Time Maxwell's Demons E The Astral Mirror Prometheans Battle Station Future Crime Challenges Twice Seven New Frontiers The Best of Bova: Volume 1 The Best of Bova: Volume 2 The Best of Bova: Volume 3 My Favorites
; Anthologies The Many Worlds of Science Fiction, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two,, Volume two A and Volume two B The Best of the Nebulas, The Future Quartet: Earth in the Year 2042 Nebula Awards Showcase 2008
; Stories

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
Appointment in Sinai	1996

Non-fiction

Man Changes the Weather. 1973.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.B68Welcome to Moonbase. Ballantine. 1987.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.
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Critical studies and reviews of Bova's work

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