Two science fiction classics from Ben Bova -- now available together!MercuryThe planet closest to our Sun is a barren, heat-scorched world. But there are those who hope to find wealth in its desolatio
The planet closest to our Sun, Mercury is a rocky, barren, heat-scorched world. But there are those who hope to find wealth in its desolation. Saito Yamagata thinks Mercury’s position makes it
Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us:SATURNE
Grant Archer only wanted to study astrophysics. But the forces of the "New Morality," the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run 21st-century America, have other plans for him. To his distress, G
Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels. Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for December—io9Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read T
Six-time Hugo winner Ben Bova brings us a gripping political thriller on the cutting-edge of science and technology inPower Surge.The science advisor to a newly-elected freshman senator, Jake has craf
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 c
In the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically fr
Running a galactic ore carrier with his family in the wake of the Asteroid Wars, Victor Zacharias flies their ship into the middle of a military attack and bravely saves his family, only to find himse
Microbiologist Michael Cochrane has been murdered. His brother Paul wants to find out who did it…and why.Accompanied by a beautiful industrial spy, Elena Sandoval, Paul follows the trail
The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin can
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 conflict
This is 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 tracks them all the way to wa
Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a g
