Ben Bova

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....

Grant Archer merely wanted to study astrophysics, to work quietly as an astronomer on the far side of the Moon....

A group of scientists and other space travelers face life-or-death decisions after their spacecraft is damaged by fire....

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....

Born and brought up on a spaceship that is slowly deteriorating, Linc discovers its secrets and the way to get the remaining occupants to their ultimate destination....

A powerful world government has scientists transported from an overpopulated earth to a satellite on the eve of their discovery of a method to modify the human embryo....

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....

The third and final volume of the very best of Ben Bova....

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....

Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead, but his protege, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate....