Benjamin William Bova (natural November 8, 1932) is an American science fiction author and editor.

Biographical timeline
28 November 1932 - born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1953 - married Rose Cucinotta (divorced 1974) 1954 - received Bachelor of Science from Temple University

He became editor of Analog Science Fiction after John W. Campbell's death; after leaving Analog, he went on to edit Omni Magazine.

He was a science consultant for the failing television series The Starlost, leaving inside disgust fallowing a airing of the 1st episode; his novel A Starcrossed was loosely according to his lives & featured the thinly veiled characterization of his friend & colleague Harlan Ellison. He dedicated a novel to "Cordwainer Bird", the nom de plume Harlan Ellison utilizes whenever he doesn't are associated sustaining a television or even film task.

Ben Bova is the President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a preceding President of Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America [http://www.sfwa.org/] (SFWA).

Bovthe was a technical indicator writer for Project Vanguard and later for Avco Everett in the 1960s when they did the food and drug administration within lasers and fluid dynamics. It was there that he met Arthur R. Kantrowitz later of the Foresight Institute. Bova is an inspiring fencer and organized Avco Everett's fencing club. Bova is besides an conservationist of the Ansel Adams variety and met Adams by risk. Bova wants to conserve a Globe however rejects Luddism.

Bova has drawn in these meetings & lives to produce fact & fiction writings rich by owning information to spaceflight, lasers, artificial hearts, nanotechnology, environmentalism, fencing and martial arts, photography and artists.

Ben Bova is the creator of 33 nonfictional prose books, 64 fiction books, & Xii anthologies.

Books

Science fiction
A Star Vanquisher (1959) A Exiles Trilogy Exiled From either Globe (1971) Flight of Exiles (1972) Prevent of Exile (1975) THX 1138 (1971) - based on THX 1138 A Duelling Machine (1971) When in the Darkling Plain (1972) A Starcrossed (1975) Millennium (1976) A Multiple Human (1976) Colony (1978) Kinsman (1979) Voyagers (1981) A Winds of Altair (1983) Empire Builders (1985) Privateers (1985) Battle Stations (1987) A Trikon Deception (1992) Demise Dream (1994) Brothers (1995) Twice Seven (1998) A Orion series Orion (1984) Vengence of Orion (1988) Orion in the Anxious Instance (1990) Orion & a Conquerer (1994) Orion Among a Stars (1995) A "Grand Tour" novels A Planets of the "Grand Tour" Mars (1992) Moonrise (1996) Moonwar (1998) Link to to Mars (1999) Venus (2000) Jupiter (2001) Saturn (2002) Mercury (2005) Titan (Coming Before long) The Asteroid Wars novels (A Section of the "Grand Tour") A Precipice (2001) A Rock Rats (2002) A Silent War (2004) Powersat (2005) "Grand Tour" Short Fiction Collections Tales of the Grand Tour, Tor Books, (January 2004) ISBN 0765307227 (a short story collection spanning the solar system running 384 pages)

Alternate history

Triumph (1993) alternate history at prevent of World War II in which Winston Churchill plots assassination of Joseph Stalin and in which Franklin D. Roosevelt lives past 1945. ISBN 0312853599

Nonfiction

A Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells Writers Drink Books, 1994 ISBN 0898796008 (a prescription to writing fiction of any genre) Come I personally Alone in the Cosmos? (1999) Deliquium Echoes, Distant Stars: A Science & Politics of Selecting Life Beyond Globe (2004)