BEN BOVA

The trouble with great ideas is that someone is sure to expend enormous effort and ingenuity figuring out how to louse them up. Ben Bova weaves a tale of wonder and science fiction splendor with one of his many masterpieces, The Dueling Machine!

Investigating the murder of his microbiologist brother, Paul Cochrane follows the trail from California to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to investigate his brother's work on a process that could produce a limitless supply of free energy to power the world.

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 planet, and Holman is determined to transform this world into one where the human race can survive. Star probes had long before informed Earth that Altair VI had a flourishing ecology with one very tough beast at the top of the food chain, a beast that will have to be dealt with before the human colony ships arrive. The beast is not only tough, it is as smart as a man. Holman is faced with a soul-wrenching decision—for to make Altair VI habitable for humans, all native life must die.

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 mankinds greatest scientific breakthrough. Others see a blasphemous attempt to play God. Suddenly, the possibility of immortality exists. Two brothers, both doctors, stand on opposite sides of the controversy. To Dr. Arthur Marshak, his work is a momentous gift to humanity. To Dr. Jessie Marshak, it is a curse. Between them stands a beautiful, remarkable woman both brothers will do anything to save. Somehow, before its too late, Arthur and Jessie Marshak must bridge the gap that divides themon an issue that could mean nothing less than life or death for millions.

Aboard "Trikon," an orbiting space station manned by American, Japanese, and European scientists conducting research to save Earth's environment, American Dan Tighe discovers a lethal blend of international espionage and sabotage. Reissue.

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 with a smile on his lips, an ace up his sleeve…and a weapon in his pocket. This Omnibus presents all of the tales of Sam Gunn to date, including three never before collected in book form. Here is the entire chronicle of Sam Gunn, trailblazer and scoundrel, as he scams his way from one end of the Solar System to the other, giving bold new meaning to the term venture capitalist.

Es el año 2095. Después de muchos meses de viaje, la gigantesca nave colonia Goddard por fin ha empezado a orbitar alrededor de Saturno, llevando una población de más de diez mil disidentes, rebeldes, extremistas y visionarios en busca de una nueva vida. Entre las misiones de la Goddard esta el estudio del planeta Titan, que ofrece la tentadora posibilidad de que pueda existir vida entre sus islas azotadas por el viento y sus mares de un gelido color negro.Cuando la sonda de exploracion Titan Alpha falla misteriosamente tras alcanzar la superficie de la luna, las tensiones que han permanecido enterradas durante tanto tiempo emergen entre los colonos, que deberan luchar por la supervivencia de la colonia, y por el destino de la raza humana.

Es el año 2095. Después de muchos meses de viaje, la gigantesca nave colonia Goddard por fin ha empezado a orbitar alrededor de Saturno, llevando una población de más de diez mil disidentes, rebeldes, extremistas y visionarios en busca de una nueva vida. Entre las misiones de la Goddard esta el estudio del planeta Titan, que ofrece la tentadora posibilidad de que pueda existir vida entre sus islas azotadas por el viento y sus mares de un gelido color negro. Cuando la sonda de exploracion Titan Alpha falla misteriosamente tras alcanzar la superficie de la luna, las tensiones que han permanecido enterradas durante tanto tiempo emergen entre los colonos, que deberan luchar por la supervivencia de la colonia, y por el destino de la raza humana. Con Titan, Ben Bova lleva a sus lectores a uno de los destinos mas intrigantes del espacio cercano: la extraordinaria luna de Saturno, que en 2005 cosecho titulares de todo el mundo cuando la sonda Huygens envio sorprendentes imagenes de sus extraños paisajes.

Es el año 2095. Después de muchos meses de viaje, la gigantesca nave colonia Goddard por fin ha empezado a orbitar alrededor de Saturno, llevando una población de más de diez mil disidentes, rebeldes, extremistas y visionarios en busca de una nueva vida. Entre las misiones de la Goddard esta el estudio del planeta Titan, que ofrece la tentadora posibilidad de que pueda existir vida entre sus islas azotadas por el viento y sus mares de un gelido color negro.Cuando la sonda de exploracion Titan Alpha falla misteriosamente tras alcanzar la superficie de la luna, las tensiones que han permanecido enterradas durante tanto tiempo emergen entre los colonos, que deberan luchar por la supervivencia de la colonia, y por el destino de la raza humana.

The Second Asteroid War climaxed with the brutal destruction of Chrysalis: hundreds of men, women and children on the miners'' habitat died terrible deaths in the vacuum of the asteroid belt. But one ship escapes destruction. Low on fuel, her communications destroyed, the ore ship Syracuse flees towards deep space with fifteen-year-old Theo Zacharias at the helm. Three years later, the war long over, Syracuse still drifts through the void. Meanwhile the man who now calls himself Dorn -- the destroyer of Chrysalis -- roams space gathering up the bodies of his victims. He encounters Theo Zacharias in a clash of purposes, hopes and fury ...

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 lay frozen in deep sleep for fifteen years, kept alive by alien biotechnology. Now Keith Stoner is something more than just a man. While asleep he was inoculated with virus-sized machines designed to repair his body, expand his brain, and let him live forever. Stoner also carries the knowledge and memories of the being whose body was enshrined in the alien craft. He now knows of many different intelligent races who destroyed themselves, battering themselves to death on the stony problems of war, famine, runaway population, and ill-planned technological breakthroughs. Keith Stoner fears for mankind, and he will do everything in his power—his extensive, alien-enhanced power—to preserve humanity into the future.

Ex-astronaut turned physicist Keith Stoner knows that the signals hes picking up at his space station are anything but random. The fiery object heading toward Earth is an alien spacecraft. Yet the world may never know for Ketih is trapped in an iron cordon of secrecy: his discovery had shattered the world power balance, setting off a brutal struggle for supremacy that raged within the sacred halls of the Vatican to the corridors of the Kremlin and the Pentagon. The powers that be would use anything at their command - fear and treachery and any other weapon from mind war to sabotage to keep the world in darkness about Stoners discovery.With the aid of a brilliant soviet linguist and a lovely young student, Stoner planned a desperate mission, a wild, heart-stopping gamble to preserve the legacy of the star voyager for all mankind.

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 geosynchronous space elevator a generation ago. Now they''re about to find out, because Mance is determined to have his revenge

This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field. Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country.

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 is determined to give it to them. He dreams of an array of geosynchronous powersats, satellites which gather solar energy and beam it to generators on Earth, freeing America from its addiction to fossil fuels and breaking the power of the oil cartels forever. But the wreck of the spaceplane has left his company, Astro Manufacturing, on the edge of bankruptcy. Worse, Dan discovers that the plane worked perfectly right up until the moment that saboteurs knocked it out of the sky. And whoever brought it down is willing and able to kill again to keep Astro grounded. Now Dan has to thread a dangerous maze. The visible threats are bad enough: Rival firms want to buy him out and take control of his dreams. His former lover wants to co-opt his unlimited-energy idea as a campaign plank for the candidate she's grooming for the presidency. NASA and the FAA want to shut down his maverick firm. And his creditors are breathing down his neck.

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 frozen. After his body was eventually returned to Earth and revived, Stoner discovered that he had acquired alien powers. Using these new powers, he built a new starship and left Earth. Now, after more than a century of exploring the stars, Keith Stoner returns to find that the world he has come back to does not match the one he left. The planet is suffering the consequences of disastrous greenhouse flooding. Most nations have been taken over by ultraconservative religion-based governments, such as the New Morality in the United States. With population ballooning and resources running out, Earth is heading for nuclear war. Stoner, the star voyager, wants to save Earth's people. But first he must save himself from the frightened and ambitious zealots who want to destroy this stranger—and the terrifying message he brings from the stars.

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 giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program. Meanwhile, Carter Carleton, an anthropologist who was driven from his university post by unproven charges of rape, has started to dig up the remains of a Martian village. Science and politics clash on two worlds as Jamie desperately tries to save the Mars program and uncover who the vanished Martians were.

The appearance in the solar system of a mysterious spaceship prompts the Soviets and Americans to launch a joint rendezvous mission, but a terrorist bomb nearly destroys the craft, leaving only American astronaut, Dr. Keith Stoner, in suspended animation in the depths of space.

Set against the trackless void of space, Ben Bova's new novel is a duel between two men. One is the murderer of a whole world; the other is one of his victims. The Second Asteroid War climaxed with the brutal destruction of Chrysalis: hundreds of men, women and children on the miners' habitat died terrible deaths in the vacuum of the asteroid belt. But one ship escapes destruction. Low on fuel, her communications destroyed, the ore ship Syracuse flees towards deep space with fifteen-year-old Theo Zacharias at the helm. Three years later, the war long over, Syracuse still drifts through the void. Meanwhile the man who now calls himself Dorn - the destroyer of Chrysalis - roams space gathering up the bodies of his victims. He encounters Theo Zacharias in a clash of purposes, hopes and fury . . .