The Science Fiction Hall of Fame by Ben Bova

In 1953, while attending Temple University, he married Rosa Cucinotta, they had a son and a daughter.

He also taught science fiction at Harvard University and at New York City's Hayden Planetarium and worked with such filmmakers as George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry.Ben Bova was born on Novemin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to his literary achievements, Bova worked for Project Vanguard, America's first artificial satellite program, and for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, the company that created the heat shields for Apollo 11, helping the NASA astronauts land on the moon. His writings predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), electronic book publishing, and much more. As an editor, he won science fiction's Hugo Award six times. Bova was President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, and a former editor of Analog and former fiction editor of Omni. Heinlein Award 'for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature' in 2008. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and the Robert A. His many honors include the Isaac Asimov Memorial Award in 1996, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year.

'Libraries can toss out worn collections of partly good/partly poor and buy this volume of the crème de la crème.' - Library Journalīen Bova (1932-2020) was the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including Able One, Transhuman, Orion, the Star Quest Trilogy, and the Grand Tour novels, including Titan, winner of John W. Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field. Moore, Eric Frank Russell, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, H.

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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame by Ben Bova