Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Science fiction is my bread and butter. I don’t read it as much anymore, but I grew up on that stuff. Kurt Vonnegut’s short stories and early novels, Ben Bova, Ray Bradbury, The Big Three – Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein – those were the people who helped form my view of [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Interviews & Profiles: @Static Multimedia: Liz Williams ( Precious Dragon ). @Tor: Artist Thomas Tenery . @Joseph Mallozzi's blog: Justina Robson ( Going Under ). @Slice of SciFi: Ben Bova ( Mars Life ). Sweet Download of the day: Grab the artwork for David Palumbo's cover art for The Living Dead anthology Ellen Datlow has posted pictures from the last KGB reading featuring Holly Black and Lauren...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Interviews and Profiles: Sci-Fi Talk podcast-interviews Ben Bova ( Mars Life ). @Tor: A. Lee Martinez ( Too Many Curses ) @Genreville: John Joseph Adams ( Seeds of Change ). @SciFi Wire: Tobias S. Buckell ( Sly Mongoose ). Free Fiction: @Feedbooks: Erewhon by Samuel Butler (1910). Lilith Saintcrow is serializing her novel Selene . Here's Part 7 . @Munseys: " The Judas Valley " by Gerald Vance (1956)....
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
In 2006, Tor Books published Variable Star, a book written by Spider Robinson from a set of notes left by science fiction great Robert A Heinlein. Now, Spider Robinson sez, "This year’s winners of the Heinlein Award are Ben Bova.....and me. I am startled, thrilled, and deeply moved by the news. I feel like I can finally exhale the last of a breath I’ve been holding for four years, since I agreed to...
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Award-winning SF author Ben Bova told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Mars Life, continues the saga of Jamie Waterman and the human exploration of Mars, which began more than 20 years ago in the novel Mars.
Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
The Legendary Ben Bova Ben Bova’s series of novels about the planets, including his newly released “Mars Life,” has been dubbed “The Grand Tour.” The six-time Hugo-winning author will be making a grand tour of sorts when he comes to Denver this week for the World Science Fiction Convention, where he will receive the Robert A. [...]
Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Life on the moon as depicted by the legendary science fiction author, Dr. Ben Bova On August 6th the DaVinci Institute will be hosting the legendary science fiction author, Dr. Ben Bova, at its Night with a Futurist event. In his various writings, Dr. Bova has predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, solar power satellites, the [...]
StarShipSofa Podcast: science ficti (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
This week Tony starts a new aspect of the show - The Editorial. Following in the footsteps of some of the great SF magazine editorials from the likes of John W Campbell, Ben Bova and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, join Tony for his once a month editorial as he plots the Sofa's route for world globalisation.
StarShipSofa Podcast: science ficti (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
This week Tony starts a new aspect of the show - The Editorial. Following in the footsteps of some of the great SF magazine editorials from the likes of John W Campbell, Ben Bova and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, join Tony for his once a month editorial as he plots the Sofa's route for world globalisation. Solar Flare John Kessel Black Phoenix Alchemy Lad
Velcro City Tourist Board (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
The Sam Gunn Omnibus by Ben Bova Tor Books, 704 pp; $29.95 HBK (US RRP); ISBN 978-0765316172; pub. Feb 2007 As the title suggests, the The Sam Gunn Omnibus is a fix-up novel that collects all of Ben Bova’s stories about the eponymous hero, written for and published in the US science fiction magazines of the late [...]
The Corner (Free subscription) | 01/31/2008
SF author Ben Bova: 'the best offense is a good missile defense.'
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 09/12/2007
At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Christopher Barzak , author of One For Sorrow . Also: John Scalzi interviews Barzak at Ficlets. [via The Swivet ] Orbit Books has posted the first chapter of The Awakened Mage by Karen Miller. Adam Roberts reviews Ben Bova's Titan . [via Graham Sleight ] Over at The Art Department, Irene Gallo asks Donato Giancola about his sketching process and gives a 30-second...
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 07/10/2007
Ben Bova's SF novel Titan was named the winner of this year's John W. Campbell Memorial Award, presented annually to the best science fiction novel of the year.
Uncle Zip's Window (Free subscription) | 06/01/2007
Nova Swing is nominated for the 2007 John W Campbell Award. The full list: Titan by Ben Bova; A Small and Remarkable Life by Nick DiChario; Infoquake by David Louis Edelman; Nova Swing by M. John Harrison; Odyssey by Jack McDevitt; The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow; Living Next Door to the God of Love [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 06/01/2007
Sniff...sniff... Smells like award season. The nominees for the 2007 John W. Campbell Memorial Award, celebrating the best SF novel published in the US, are: Titan by Ben Bova (Tor) A Small and Remarkable Life by Nick DiChario (Robert J. Sawyer Books) Infoquake by David Louis Edelman (Pyr) [see SF Signal review ] Nova Swing by M. John Harrison (Gollancz) Odyssey by Jack McDevitt (Ace) The Last Witchfinder...
