Ben Bova
Ben Bova is an American author of science fiction and non-fiction books. He is the author of the Exiles Trilogy, Grand Tour, Sam Gunn, Chet Kinsman, Voyagers, Orion and Watchmen series. He is a six-time Hugo Award winning author. In 1972, he took over for John W. Campbell as editor of Analog Science Fiction. Following that run, he went on to work as the editor for Omni magazine for four years.

Ben Bova became a published author with his debut novel, The Star Conquerors (published in 1959). Since then, he has written well over 100 books. Below is a list of Ben Bova’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Watchmen/The Others Books

The Star Conquerors (1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Star Watchman (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dueling Machine (1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Exiles Books

Exiled from Earth (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Flight of Exiles (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
End of Exile (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Kinsman Books

Chronological Order of Kinsman Books

Publication Order of Voyagers Books

Publication Order of Orion Books

Orion (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Vengeance of Orion (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Orion In The Dying Time (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Orion and the Conqueror (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Orion Among the Stars (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Orion and King Arthur (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Grand Tour Books

Publication Order of Star Quest Trilogy Books

Publication Order of Outer Planets Books

Publication Order of Sam Gunn Books

Sam Gunn Unlimited (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sam Gunn Forever (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sam Gunn Omnibus: New Stories (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sam Gunn Jr. (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Moonbase Saga Books

Publication Order of The Asteroid Wars Books

Publication Order of Billionaire's Club Books

Publication Order of Jake Ross Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Weather-Makers (1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Out of the Sun (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Escape! (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
THX 1138 (With: George Lucas) (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
As On A Darkling Plain (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Winds of Altair (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
When the Sky Burned (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gremlins Go Home (With: Gordon R. Dickson) (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Starcrossed (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
City Of Darkness (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Multiple Man (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Colony (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Test of Fire (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Peacekeepers (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cyberbooks (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Trikon Deception (With: William R. Pogue) (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Triumph (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death Dream (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Brothers (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Green Trap (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Immortality Factor (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Able One (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hittite (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Transhuman (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rescue Mode (With: Les Johnson) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Space Station Down (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Next Logical Step (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Answer, Please Answer (With: John Betancourt) (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Forward In Time (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maxwell's Demons (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Escape Plus (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Astral Mirror (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Astral Mirror (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Prometheans (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Battle Station (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Future Crime (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Challenges (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Future Quartet: Earth in the Year 2042 (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Twice Seven (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Towers of Titan and Other Stories (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
New Frontiers (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mercury and Prometheans (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best of Bova (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best of Bova, Volume II (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best of Bova, Volume III (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
My Favorites (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Milky Way Galaxy (1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Giants of the Animal World (1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Reptiles Since the World Began (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Uses of Space (1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Planets, Life & Lgm (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In Quest of Quasars (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Amazing Laser (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Man Changes the Weather (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Weather Changes Man (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The New Astronomies (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Starflight and Other Improbabilities (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fourth State of Matter (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Science Fact Reader (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Workshops in Space (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Through Eyes of Wonder (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Notes to a Science Fiction Writer (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Science--Who Needs It? (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Closeup, New Worlds (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Viewpoint (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Seeds of Tomorrow (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
High Road (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Vision of the Future (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Assured Survival (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Star Peace (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Welcome to Moon Base (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Interactions (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Beauty of Light (With: Vonda N. McIntyre) (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Immortality (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
First Contact (With: Byron Preiss) (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Are We Alone In The Cosmos? The Guide To The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Space Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Science of Interplanetary and Interstellar Travel (With: Anthony R. Lewis) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Are We Alone in the Cosmos? The Search for Alien Contact in the New Millenium (With: Byron Preiss) (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Story of Light (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Living Universe (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Faint Echoes, Distant Stars (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Science Fiction Writing Books

Aliens and Alien Societies (By: Stanley Schmidt) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Time Travel (By: Paul J. Nahin) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Space Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Science of Interplanetary and Interstellar Travel (With: Anthony R. Lewis) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Best of Science Fiction: No. 10(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1968(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Many Worlds of Science Fiction(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Science Fiction Hall Of Fame: The Novellas Book 2(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog 9(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cosmic Laughter; Science Fiction for the Fun of It(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Science Fiction Hall of Fame: The Novellas Book 1(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Annual(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Aliens: 3 Novellas(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Aliens(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Study War No More(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Weird Heroes Volume 6(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Yearbook(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Novella 3(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rod Serling's Other Worlds(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Alien Encounters(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog: Writers' Choice Volume II(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best of the Nebulas(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Power(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1997(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2001(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best Of Analog(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hard SF Renaissance(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog, January/February 2005(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nebula Awards Showcase 2007(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nebula Awards 42 (2008)(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Going Interstellar(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Science Fiction Gems, Volume Four, Jack Sharkey and Others(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Callahan Kids(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Writers for Relief(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Carbide Tipped Pens(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Science Fiction Gems, Volume 9(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Visions of the Future(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume XV(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Notes: The To Save the Sun series is co-authored by A.J. Austin. Gremlins, Go Home! is co-authored with Gordon R. Dickson. The Trikon Deception is co-authored with Bill Pogue. Rescue Mode is co-authored by Les Johnson. The anthology Carbide Tipped Pens was edited with Eric Choi.

The Future Quartet: Earth in the Year 2042 also contains stories by Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle and Charles Sheffield. The Callahan Kids: Tales of Life on Mars also contains stories by Michael Carroll, Jim Denney, Marianne Dyson, Brian Enke, Tom Hill and Rebecca Rowe.

Closeup: New Worlds is co-authored with Trudy E. Bell. Physicist and the Matter of This World is co-authored by Sheldon Glashow. First Contact: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence is co-authored by Byron Preiss. Faint Echoes, Distant Stars was also published as The Living Universe.

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Ben Bova Synopsis: The Weathermakers is a novel about climate change. After everything else is conquered, can Mother Nature be controlled as well?

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