From the six-time Hugo Award-winning author of the Voyagers series comes the next installment, book four, Ben Bova's The ReturnIn 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...

A first-contact novel from the multi-Hugo Award winner that's "fast and exciting. . . . mysterious and awe-inspiring" ( Science Fiction Review ).Keith Stoner, ex-astronaut turned physicist, knows the signal that his research station is receiving from space is not random. Whatever it is, it's real.And it's headed straight for Earth.He'll do anything to be the first man to go out to confront this enigma. Even...

Ben Bova's The Silent War is the breakneck continuation to The Asteroid Wars series that can end only in earth's salvation--or the annihilation of all that humankind has ever accomplished in space.When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is led by indomitable Texan Pancho Lane, Humphries Space Systems by the rich and ruthless Martin Humphries, and their fight is over nothing less than resources of the As...

The six-time Hugo Award winner chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system.Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only thing he has left—the company he founded, Astro Manufacturing.

From a six-time Hugo Award winner, this far future science fiction adventure follows a crew on a mission to save the galaxy from an apocalypse.Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humanity's expansion beyond the solar system in Apes and Angels, the second book of the Star Quest Trilogy which began with Death Wave.Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate ...

Multi-Hugo Award-winning author Ben Bova continues the story of Earth's first extraterrestrial contact with Voyagers II: The Alien Within.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 in the history of Earth—but disaster struck when a bomb placed on the Soviet craft forced its recall. Stoner refused to return to ...

"[An] epic novel of lunar conquest" from the New York Times–bestselling and six-time Hugo Award–winning author of Mars ( Orlando Sentinel).In the twenty-first century, the world is on the brink of a scientific renaissance, about to birth a future where space has become privatized and the moon transforms into a fertile commercial ground. As former astronaut Paul Stavenger works to turn a handful of abandoned government mo...

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 This December— The VergeBest SFF of December— Unbound WorldsIn Surivival, a human team sent to scout a few hund...

"Never-stop action and mind-bending concepts combine" in this science fiction adventure from a Hugo Award–winning author (Issac Asimov).John O'Ryan is not a god . . . not exactly. He is an eternal warrior destined to combat the Dark Lord through all time for dominion of the Earth. Follow him, servant of a great race, as he battles his enemy down the halls of time, from the caves of our ancestors to the final confrontation under the hammer of nuclear annihilation.

When a human team is sent to scout a few hundred light-years in front of the death wave, it encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences.These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons and have survived earlier “death waves,” gamma-ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm them, and utterly uninterested in helping to save other civilizations,...

"One of [Bova's] best, and a classic use of the old SF theme of humanity reaching out for immortality among the stars." — Booklist (starred review)Six-time Hugo Award–winning authorFarside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder.Te...

The collected science fiction adventures of Sam Gunn, astronaut, explorer, opportunist, and rogue—from a six-time Hugo Award–winning author."By far the science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the science fiction world, and the world as a whole, is Ben Bova." — Ray Bradbury"Lovers of SF romance and adventure will welcome . . . The Sam Gunn Omnibus