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Dr Ben Bova
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Can an experimental defense system stop North Korean missile strikes? Able One is a timely thrill-ride by a six-time Hugo Award-winner and one of science fiction’s most respected novelists.
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For the first time in one volume, Hugo-winner Ben Bova presents all the talesof Sam Gunn to date, including three never before collected in book form.
In this novel, Bova chronicles the tale of Lukka, the Hittite soldier who traveled across Greece in search of the vicious slave traders who kidnapped his wife and sons. He…
In this fascinating and cutting-edge work, Bova explores one of the most thrilling and elemental questions humanity has ever posed: Is man alone? From Copernicus to the advent of SETI…
Jeff Holman is determined to terraform Altair VI into a home for the people of dying Earth. But he discovers that Altair VI hides a terrible secret, and he is…
Edited by multi Hugo Award-winning author Ben Bova, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas–chosen by the members…
New tales of humanity’s near-future exploration of the Solar System, from a science fiction master and award-winning author Ben Bova
In novels like Mars, and Moonbase, and Venus, Jupiter, and…
Keith Stoner has become merged with an alien intelligence embodied in the nanotechnology that lives inside his body. Now, there are powerful leaders who will stop at nothing to gain…
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Stephen Gillett
This book is designed to give science fiction writers the solid grounding they need in real science to make their fictions read like fact. World Building is a blueprint in…
Jack London
One of the best sea novels ever written, The Sea-Wolf tells of mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation. Also in this volume are the stories The Law of Life, The…