Ben Bova

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November 08, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science

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Ben Bova was born on November 8, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1953, while attending Temple University, he married Rosa Cucinotta, they had a son and a daughter. He would later divorce Rosa in 1974. In that same year he married Barbara Berson Rose.

Bova is an avid fencer and organized Avco Everett's fencing club. He is an environmentalist, but rejects Luddism.

Bova was a technical writer for Project Vanguard and later for Avco Everett in the 1960s when they did research in lasers and fluid dynamics. It was there that he met Arthur R. Kantrowitz later of the Foresight Institute.

In 1971 he became editor of Analog Science Fiction after John W. Campbell's death. After leaving Analog, he went on to edit Omni during 1978-1982.

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Average rating: 3.65 · 14,263 ratings · 1,012 reviews · 267 distinct works

	Mars by Ben Bova, Bruno Bodin (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 2,055 ratings — published 1992 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Jupiter 3.72 avg rating — 699 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Venus 3.60 avg rating — 700 ratings — published 2000 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Return to Mars 3.71 avg rating — 629 ratings — published 1999 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume 2A 4.27 avg rating — 577 ratings — published 1973 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Orion (Orion, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 485 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	Titan 3.59 avg rating — 424 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Moonrise (Moonbase Saga, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 417 ratings — published 1996 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Precipice 3.57 avg rating — 386 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	Saturn: A Novel of the Ringed Planet 3.55 avg rating — 370 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions	My rating:

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The Grand Tour (17 books)
by Ben Bova

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Mars (3 books)
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The Asteroid Wars (4 books)
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Orion (6 books)
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Jupiter (2 books)
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“Red tape has killed more people than bullets...”
― Ben Bova, Millennium

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“A fanatic who is willing to die for his cause thinks nothing of killing you for his cause.”
― Ben Bova, The Return

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“The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves.”
― Ben Bova, Mars Life

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