Ben Bova

This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing 11 great classics....

Half-Navajo geologist Jamie Waterman has been selected for the ground team of the first manned expedition to our mysterious neighbor planet....

Six years after the first manned Martian expedition, a second has been announced, this one motivated purely by its profitable potential....

This last volume in the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964 contains 11 great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field....

A hero without peer or scruples, Sam Gunn has a nose for trouble, money, and women, though not necessarily in that order....

Rebel billionaire Dan Randolph - possessor of the largest privately owned company in space - intends to weaken the stranglehold the new despotic masters of the solar system have on the lucrative ore industry....

Two hundred thousand feet up, things go horribly wrong. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, falling to earth over a trail hundreds of miles long....

With the Death Wave no longer a threat to humanity, humans have spread out and colonized all the worlds of the solar system. The technology of the Predecessors has made Earth a paradise, at least on the surface. But a policy of exiling discontented young people may lead to war....

When a human team is sent to scout a few hundred light-years in front of the death wave, it encounters a civilization far in advance of our own....

Stoner knew. The fiery object hurtling toward the Earth was an alien spacecraft....

What secrets lurk in the depths of Jupiter’s oceans....

After more than a century of exploring the stars, Keith Stoner returns to Earth to find that the world he has come back to does not match the one he left....

When Kell and his team return to Earth many years after their departure, they find that their world has changed almost beyond recognition....

Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it....

A 21st century U.S. aerospace company has developed the first permanent human settlement on the Moon....

A cliff dwelling reveals the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet 65 million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor....

Dr. Jake Ross has learned the only way to get something done in Washington is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal riding in the wake of Frank Tomlinson. But now Tomlinson has decided to shoot for the moon. If they win, they get it all. If they lose, the game is over for Jake....

Dan Randolph never plays by the rules. A hell-raising maverick with no patience for fools, he is admired by his friends, feared by his enemies, and desired by the world's loveliest women....

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....

Watch out - the Earth just fell into a dark sun's orbit! Or maybe you'd rather visit a theme park called Hell? These are just two of the strange and unnerving tales you'll find in this collection....