Six years after the first manned Martian expedition, a second has been announced -- one motivated purely by its profitable potential -- and half-Navajo, half-Anglo geologist Jamie Waterman's conflicted soul is beckoning him back to the eerie, unforgiving planet. As commander of the new exploratory t[...]
Provocative, gripping, startling: bestselling author Ben Bova delivers a knockout read with his trademark blend of cutting edge science and unrelenting suspense….
Some see stem-cell research as mankind’s greatest scientific breakthrough. Others see a blasphemous attempt to play God. [...]
Two hundred thousand feet up, things go horribly wrong. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, falling to earth over a trail hundreds of miles long. And it its wake is the beginning of the most important mission in the history of space.
America needs energy, and Dan Randolph [...]
In this gritty and scientifically accurate science fiction adventure from New York Times bestselling author Ben Bova and NASA space scientist Les Johnson, the first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it! Too far from Earth to sim[...]
Impressed into service aboard the seal-hunting "Ghost," Humphrey Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a tense shipboard drama. With a wary eye, he watches the vessel's abusive captain, Wolf Larsen, an enigma who can abandon two sailors on the open water, then return to reading the moral ph[...]
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of this classic novella that details the adventures of Humphrey Van Weyden aboard the IT>Ghost, a seal-hunting vessel, this stellar volume also features four of London's most renowned short stories. Original.[...]
Six-time Hugo-Award winner Ben Bova presents "Farside.
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Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder.Telescopes on Earth have det[...]
Six-time Hugo Award-winner Ben Bova presents "Transhuman." Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist has one joy in life, his ten-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When he learns that Angela has an inoperable brain tumor and is given less than six months to live, Abramson wants to try an experimen[...]
Six-time Hugo winner Ben Bova brings us "Power Surge, "a gripping political thriller on the cutting-edge of science and technologyDr. Jake Ross came to Washington, D.C., to make a difference. As the science advisor to a newly-elected freshman senator, Jake has crafted a comprehensive energy plan tha[...]
In a future society that is exploring Mercury for possible technological benefits, Dante Alexios investigates the planet's potential as an orbit point for power satellites, Victor Molina explores polar waters for evidence of life, and Elliot Danvers oversees the scientific progress of the first two.[...]
Ben Bova, six-time winner of the Hugo Award, brings us a fascinating look at the future in "Power Play."
Astronomer Jake Ross wants nothing more than to teach a few university classes each semester and continue his research. However, Frank Tomlinson, an ambitious politician with his eye on the U[...]
In Ben Bova's novel JUPITER, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter's hostile planetwide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environment and crushing pressures, Grant's team faced certain death as the[...]
Six-time Hugo-Award winner Ben Bova presents "Farside," part of The Grand Tour series."
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Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and mu[...]
We've found an Earthlike planet, but what secrets does it hold?
In Ben Bova's "New Earth," The world is thrilled by the discovery of an Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows oceans of liquid water and a breathable, oxygen-rich atmosphere. A human exploration team is dispatched to explore the p[...]
New Frontiers, fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from Ben Bova, six-time winner of the Hugo AwardFrontiers can be found in all directions. Frontiers of time and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outer limits of the human spirit. This out[...]
A novel of one of the strangest places imaginable, a place where hydrogen flows as a liquid, a place with a lightless ocean ten times wider than the entire earth, a place where cyclones larger than planets rage for centuries at a time.Grant Archer merely wanted to study astrophysics, to work quietly[...]
On a future Earth where fundamentalist politicians rule, the planet's dissidents are boarded onto a space ark destined for Saturn, a journey that is further challenged by the schemes of corrupt individuals. Reprint.[...]
Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protege, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her. For Randolph's rival Martin Humphries still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuch[...]
The future is coming and it's going to be hilarious! Two full-length novels of twistedly comic, but very possible futures, plus six shorter but equally witty works, add up to a generous volume of futuristic fun and hilarious high-tech.[...]
A scientific thriller by six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life: his ten-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When Angela is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and given less than six months to live, Luke wa[...]