Ben Bova bibliography

The following is a complete bibliography by American space opera author Ben Bova.^[1]

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 OCLC 12264834 and Volume two B OCLC 12264899
• Aliens. Orbit. 1977. ISBN 0-86007-958-9. 
• The Best of the Nebulas (1989), ISBN 0-312-93175-1
• The Future Quartet – Earth in the Year 2042 (1995)
• Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction, edited by Ben Bova and Eric Choi (2014), ISBN 978-0-7653-3430-5

Collections

Exiles

• Exiled from Earth (1971)
• Flight of Exiles (1972)
• End of Exile (1975)

Grand Tour

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:^[2]

According to his official Web site, Bova suggested that the books can be read chronologically as follows; Powersat, Empire Builders, Mars, Moonrise, Moonwar, Return to Mars, The Precipice, Jupiter, The Rock Rats, The Silent War, The Aftermath, Saturn, Leviathans of Jupiter, Titan, Mercury, Mars Life, Venus, The Return, Farside, and New Earth.^[2]

Bova also published a short story collection including stories that span much of the timeline, called Tales of the Grand Tour (2004)^[2]

Sam Gunn

• Sam Gunn, Unlimited (1993) (short-story collection)
• Sam Gunn Forever (1998) (short-story collection)
• Sam Gunn Omnibus (2007)

Chet Kinsman

• The Weathermakers (1967) Back-story of a major character from Millennium
• 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)

Non-series novels

• Out of the Sun. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 1968. ISBN 978-0-8125-3210-4. 
• Escape! (1969)
• THX 1138 (with George Lucas) (1971), based on the film THX 1138
• When the Sky Burned (1972)
• Gremlins, Go Home! (with Gordon Dickson) (1974)
• The Starcrossed (1975)
• The Multiple Man (1976)
• City of Darkness (1976)
• Test of Fire (1982) (A revised version of When the Sky Burned)
• The Winds of Altair (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)
• Brothers. NEL. 1995. ISBN 0-450-61335-6.  – expanded edition later republished as The Immortality Factor
• The Green Trap (2006)
• Laugh Lines (2008) (A collection of short stories, 'The Starcrossed' and 'Cyberbooks')
• The Immortality Factor. Tor. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7653-0525-1.  – earlier shorter edition published as Brothers
• The Hittite (2010) (A retelling of the Iliad)
• Able One (2010)
• Power Play (2011)
• Mars, Inc.: The Billionaire's Club. Baen. 2013. ISBN 978-1-4516-3934-6.  – a "parallel" version of the exploration of Mars, where private enterprise (and not a government program) drives the conquest.^[3]
• Transhuman (2014)
• Rescue Mode (with Les Johnson) (2014)
• Power Surge (2015)

Orion

• 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

• To Save the Sun (with A.J. Austin) (1992)
• To Fear the Light (with A.J. Austin) (1994)

Voyagers

• Voyagers (1981, volume I)
• The Alien Within (1986, volume II)
• Star Brothers (1990, volume III)
• The Return (2009, volume IV)

Watchmen

• The Star Conquerors (1959)
• Star Watchman (1964)
• The Dueling Machine (1969)
• As on a Darkling Plain (1972)

Star Quest Trilogy

• New Earth (2013)
• Death Wave (2015)
• Apes and Angels (2016)

Non-fiction

• The Amazing Laser. Westminster Press. 1971. ISBN 0-664-34003-2. 
• The Milky Way Galaxy. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 1961. 
• Man Changes the Weather. 1973.
• The Weather Changes Man. Addison-Wesley. 1974. ISBN 0-201-00555-7. ^[4]
• In Quest of Quasars. Signet. 1975. ISBN 0-451-61411-9. 
• 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 Beauty of Light. John Wiley & Sons. 1988. ISBN 0-471-62580-9. 
• 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.
• "Across My Life ...". Analog. 130 (1&2): 112–114. Jan–Feb 2010. 

Short fiction

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