Award-winning writer Ben Bova takes on the power-players in D.C. in Power Failure, the taut near-future SF thriller and sequel to Power Play and Power Surge.Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to
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
Dr. Jake Ross, a university astronomer, wants nothing more than to teach a few classes each semester and continue on his research. However, he is being aggressively recruited to be the science advisor
Earth is an old planet, and her teeming masses are running out of resources . . . and time. It is up to men such as Jeff Holman to discover a haven for Earth’s millions. Altair VI is one such p
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
Our neighboring planets may have the answer to this question. Scientists have already identified ice caps on Mars and what appear to be enormous oceans underneath the ice of Jupiter's moons. The atmos
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
Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels. In Surivival, a human team sent to scout a few hundred lightyears in front of the death wave encounter
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 Ben Bova's novel Jupiter, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter's planetwide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepare
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
Astronaut Keith Stoner, member of a joint U.S.-Soviet mission to capture an alien ship that had entered the solar system, was trapped alone aboard the alien spacecraft. But he didn’t die, he la
Eighteen years ago, astronaut Keith Stoner had been the American member of a joint U.S.Soviet mission to capture an alien ship that had entered the solar system. It was the greatest adventure i
This is thetale of Lukka, the Hittite soldier who traveled across Greece in searchof the vicious slave traders whokidnapped his wife and sons. He tracks them all the way to wa
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
Some see stem-cell research as mankind's greatest scientific breakthrough. Others see a blasphemous attempt to play God. Suddenly, the possibility of immortality exists. Two brothers, both doctors, s
An omnibus anthology brings together the complete adventures of Sam Gunn, a visionary astronaut, scoundrel, and venture capitalist, as he comes to the aid of twin sisters trapped in the "virtual sex"
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
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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 sci
"What you are about to read deals with the stars, the wide galactic future that lies at our fingertips today... both factual articles and fictional stories. In a world where robots are causing human u
Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system. Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. H
Civilized, harmless virtual reality dueling has replaced all physical conflict — everything from punching someone over a personal insult to interstellar warfare... until a madman dictator of a small e
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
