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The Best of Bova, Vol. 1

Ben BovaNarrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Vikas Adam, Paul Boehmer, Orson Scott Card, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir, Alex Hyde-White, Jim Meskimen, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., various narrators

Length15h 50m

About this audiobook

The first volume in a sterling collection of stories from legendary hard science fiction master Ben Bova These are selected stories from Bova’s amazing career at the center of science fiction and space advocacy. He is the creator of the New York Times bestselling Grand Tour series, a six-time Hugo Award winner, and past president of the National Space Society. The very best of Ben Bova, these stories span the five decades of Bova’s incandescent career. Here are tales of star-faring adventure, peril, and drama. Here are journeys into the mind-bending landscapes of virtual worlds and alternate realities. Here you’ll also find stories of humanity’s astounding future on Earth, on Mars, and in the solar system beyond—stories that always get the science right. And Bova’s gathering of deeply realized, totally human characters are the heroic, brave, tricky, sometimes dastardly engineers, astronauts, corporate magnates, politicians, and scientists who will make these futures possible—and those who often find that the problems of tomorrow are always linked to human values and human failings which are as timeless as the stars.

Audiobook details

GenreScience Fiction, General Fiction

Length15 hrs 50 mins

Narrated byStefan Rudnicki, Vikas Adam, Paul Boehmer, Orson Scott Card, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir, Alex Hyde-White, Jim Meskimen, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., various narrators

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateFeb 2, 2016

LanguageEnglish

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About the author

Ben Bova

Ben Bova (1932–2020), American author of more than one hundred books of science fact and fiction, was awarded posthumously the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. His work earned six Hugo Awards. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and his novel Titan won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel of 2006. In his early career, he was a technical editor for Project Vanguard, the United States’s first effort to launch a satellite into space in 1958. He then was a science writer for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, which built the heat shields for the Apollo 11 module. He held the position of president emeritus of the National Space Society and served as president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.View all by Ben Bova