Ben Bova bibliography

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

Novels

 * 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)
 * – expanded edition later republished as The Immortality Factor
 * The Green Trap (2006)
 * Laugh Lines (2008) (A collection of short stories, 'The Starcrossed' and 'Cyberbooks')
 * – 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)
 * – a "parallel" version of the exploration of Mars, where private enterprise (and not a government program) drives the conquest.
 * Transhuman (2014)
 * Rescue Mode (with Les Johnson) (2014)
 * Space Station Down (with Doug Beason) (2020)
 * 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: • 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)


 * 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)
 * 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), ISBN 0-525-34550-7
 * The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two, (1973), Volume two A and Volume two B
 * The Best of the Nebulas (1989), ISBN 0-312-93175-1
 * The Future Quartet: Earth in the Year 2042 (1995)
 * Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (2008)
 * Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (2008)


 * Stories

Non-fiction

 * Man Changes the Weather. 1973.
 * 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 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.
 * Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth. 2004.
 * 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.
 * Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth. 2004.
 * 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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