VOLUME 3 IN A STERLING COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM LEGENDARY HARD SCIENCE FICTION MASTER BEN BOVA Selected stories from Bova&s amazing career at the center of science fiction & space advocacy He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling Grand Tour science fiction series a six time Hugo award winner & past president of the National Space Society Volume 3 of 3 of the very best of Ben Bova a grandmaster of science fiction storytelling These stories span the five decades of Bova&s incandescent career Here are tales of star-faring adventure peril & drama Here are journeys into the mind-bending landscapes of virtual worlds & alternate realities Here you&ll also find stories of humanity&s astounding future on Earth on Mars & in the Solar System beyond—stories that always get the science right & Bova&s gathering of deeply realized totally human characters are the heroic brave tricky sometimes dastardly engineers astronauts corporate magnates politicians & scientists who will make these futures possible—and those who often find that the problems of tomorrow are always linked to human values & human failings that are as timeless as the stars Meet the Author Ben Bova has written more than one hundred twenty futuristic novels & nonfiction books & has been involved in science & high technology since the very beginnings of the space age President Emeritus of the National Space Society & a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America Bova received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C Clarke Foundation in 2005 "for fueling mankind&s imagination regarding the wonders of outer space" His 2006 novel Titan received the John W Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year In 2008 he won the Robert A Heinlein Award "for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature" Bova is a frequent commentator on radio & television & a widely-popular lecturer His articles opinion pieces & reviews have appeared in Scientific American Nature The New York Times The Wall Street Journal & many other newspapers & magazines Earlier he was an award-winning editor & an executive in the aerospace industry Bova has taught science fiction at Harvard University & at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City where he has also directed film courses Bova currently lives in Florida