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...

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...

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...

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 ...

"[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...

"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.

A lunar colony faces off with corrupt Earth forces intent on destroying it, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Moonrise.This fast-paced, high-tech adventure is the continuation of the story of Douglas Stavenger, the Kennedy-esque scion of Moonbase's founding dynasty.While Moonbase has been flourishing under Stavenger's management, it's existence, and even Stavenger's life, both depend on nanotechnology that has been outlawed on ...

"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

The New York Times–bestselling and six-time Hugo Award–winning author's epic Grand Tour adventure continues.Jamie Waterman is returning to the red planet, this time in charge of an expedition in which he hopes to demonstrate that one can study Martian life not only for the sake of the pursuit but more, that it can be profitable. Waterman also hopes to revisit a part of the canyon where he thought he spied a primitive cliff dwelling during the first Martian...

Keith Stoner lay frozen in an alien spacecraft for fifteen long years; during that time he came to be something more than just an astronaut, just a man. Stoner became partly alien hismelf--merged with an alien intelligence embodied in the nanotechnology that lived inside Stoner's body.The alien whose tomb that spacecraft was, brought humanity both a blessing and a deadly peril. The technology now the control of Vanguard Industries has changed the face of the earth. The technology th...

An industrialist builds his dreams while a disgraced scientist plots revenge in this dramatic science fiction novel by the six-time Hugo Award–winning author.The closest planet 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 will make it an ideal orbit point for satellites that could someday create enough power to propel starships into deep...