Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Methuen
Keywords: millennium
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1988-11-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 041318630X
ISBN-13: 9780413186300

Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Keywords: tour, grand, titan
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2007-03-06
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0765343150
ISBN-13: 9780765343154

Hugo Award-winning editor, author, scientist, and journalist, Ben Bova is a modern master of near-future science fiction and a passionate advocate of manned space exploration.  For more than a decade, Bova has been chronicling humanity’s struggles to colonize our solar system in a series of interconnected novels known as “The Grand Tour.” Now, with Titan, Ben Bova takes readers to one of the most intriguing destinations in near space: the extraordinary moon of Saturn which made international headlines last year when the Huygens probe sent back remarkable images of its strange landscape

Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Keywords: tour, grand, mercury
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0765343142
ISBN-13: 9780765343147

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 an ideal place to generate power to propel starships into deep space. Astrobiologist Victor Molina thinks the water at Mercury’s poles may harbor evidence of life. Bishop Elliot Danvers has been sent by the Earth-based “New Morality” to keep close tabs on Molina.But all three of these men are blissfully unaware of their shared history, and of how it connects to the collapse of Mance Bracknell’s

Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: omnibus, gunn, sam
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2009-04-14
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 076531620X
ISBN-13: 9780765316202

A hero without peer or scruples, Sam Gunn has a nose for trouble, money, and women—though not necessarily in that order. A man with the ego (and stature) of a Napoleon, the business acumen of a P. T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a teenage boy, Sam is the finest astronaut NASA ever trained… and dumped.More than money and women, Sam Gunn loves justice. Whether he’s suing the Pope, helping twin sisters entangled in the virtual sex trade, or on trial for his life on charges of interplanetary genocide, you can be sure of one thing: this is one space jockey who’ll meet every challenge wi

Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Eos
Keywords: colony
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0380793156
ISBN-13: 9780380793150

In the Future, Everything is Different. But Nothing Has Changed.The Earth has been poisoned by pollution, choked by overpopulation, and ravaged by the mindless greed of power-hungry corporations. A fragile peace is threatened by landless revolutionaries and global anarchy seems imminent.Yet a single ray of hope remains. . .Island One is a celestial utopia, and David Adams is its most perfect creation - a man with a brain as advanced as any computer and a body free of human frailties. But David is a prisoner -- a captive of the colony that created him -- destined to spend the days of his life i

Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: tour, grand, tales
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0765307227
ISBN-13: 9780765307224

In novels like Mars and Moonbase, and Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, as well as Privateers, The Precipice, and The Rock Rats, Ben Bova has been telling the stories of the wars and rivalries, the outsize individuals, public crusades, and private passions that will drive us as we expand into the Solar System and make use of its vast resources. And throughout, Bova has shown our cosmic neighborhood as we know it to be, giving us a sense of Venus and Jupiter and the Asteroid Belt and Mars that’s as up-to-date as the latest observations. For the last two decades have been a golden age of near-Ea

Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: one
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2010-02-02
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0765323869
ISBN-13: 9780765323866

When a nuclear missile launched by a rogue North Korean faction explodes in space the resulting shockwave destroys the world’s satellites, throwing global communication into chaos. The United States military satellites, designed to withstand such an assault, show that two more missiles are sitting on the launch pad in North Korea, ready to be deployed. Faced with the threat of a thermonuclear attack, the United States has only one possible defense: Able One.ABL-1, or Able One, is a modified 747 fitted with a high-powered laser able to knock out missiles in flight. But both the laser’s tech