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 Factor
  • The Green Trap
  • Laugh Lines
  • – earlier shorter edition published as Brothers
  • The Hittite
  • Able One
  • – a "parallel" version of the exploration of Mars, where private enterprise drives the conquest.
  • Transhuman
  • Rescue Mode
  • Space Station Down
;Exiles series
  • Exiled 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 series
  • The Weathermakers
  • Millennium
  • Colony
  • Kinsman
  • The Kinsman Saga and Kinsman
;Jake Ross series
  • Power Play
  • Power Surge
  • Power Failure
  • Power Challenges
;Orion series
;To Save the Sun series
  • To Save the Sun
  • To Fear the Light
;Voyagers series
  • Voyagers
  • The Alien Within
  • Star Brothers
  • The Return
;Watchmen series
;Star Quest series
  • New Earth
  • Death Wave
  • Apes and Angels
  • ''Survival''

    Short fiction

;Collections
  • Forward in Time
  • Maxwell's Demons
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  • 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
; Stories
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
Appointment in Sinai1996


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.B68
  • Welcome 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.

  • Critical studies and reviews of Bova's work

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