Ben Bova
Six time Hugo award winner for Best Professional editor (1973-1977 and 1979). Native of Philadelphia, received a degree in journalism from Temple University. Newspaperman, editor, aerospace executive, motion picture writer, and tv science consultant. Resident of NY.  Author of more than 80 futuristic novels and nonfiction books, became involved in the U.S. space program two years before the creation of NASA. He was editor of Analog and Omni magazines, has written teaching films with Nobel laureates, and is President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

You can read a new Orion short story, "Legendary Heros" on Ben Bova's home page.
Orion
"Orion"
1983
David Mattingly

Orion
Boris Vallejo

Vengeance of Orion
Boris Vallejo

Orion in the Dying Time
Boris Vallejo

Orion and the Conqueror
Boris Vallejo

Orion Among the Stars
Donato Giancola

Orion
The exciting beginning of Bova's popular "Orion" saga, this is the story of  John O'Ryan, a man who awakens one day to discover that he is the leader of a race of beings so far beyond humanity that they are almost gods. And, like a god he is locked in an endless struggle with an enemy whose powers are so far beyond the merely human that they seem demonic. Their eternal battle spans time itself.
Vengeance of Orion
Orion finds himself thrust back to the ancient world of Greece and must prevent the Greek army from destroying the citadel of Troy. If he fails, he will lose the only woman he has ever loved. But if he succeeds, the history of the world will be changed forever. The stunning sequel to Orion.
Orion in the Dying Time
Orion the Hunter, eternal champion of humanity, is an immortal being made by the Creators to battle against their greatest enemy through all of time and space. Anya is one of the Creators. She has come to love Orion as a human woman might, and for his sake has abandoned her power and her safety to accompany him through all his battle with the Enemy. 
Orion and the Conqueror
John O'Ryan is Orion-more than human, less than a god, cast away on the seas of time to do battle among the Creators for the future of mankind. Now the eternal warrior finds himself separated from his great love, Anya, and marooned in Macedonia under the reign of Philip-fighting alongside the young Alexander, and at the mercy of a Queen Olympias who is far more than she seems.
Orion Among the Stars
More than human, less than a god, John O'Ryan is Orion, made by the mysterious Creators who rule outside of time. But Orion is more than the Creators intended. He can fall in love, and has - with Anya, the goddess plighted to Aten the Golden. Now the Creators have plunged into civil war, with Anya and Aten commanding opposite sides - with Orion out of reach.

Star Watch
 
Star Watchman
Peter Elson

The Duelling Machine

The Watchmen Onimbus
Darrell K Sweet

Star Watchman
When the human race reached into space, it discovered that it had been preceded by its own ancestors--who had been ruthlessly smashed back to the stone age by a powerful alien race known only as "the Others." Modern mankind has been compelled to build an interstellar empire, and the officers of the Star Watch must knit together the worlds of the galaxy into a federation capable of fighting their ancient enemy.
The Duelling Machine
Planets both within the Terran Commonwealth and under Star Watch control, and outside it, have made use of dueling machines for many years to settle tensions and private arguments peacefully. Men in disagreements can have their brains hooked in and conduct a virtual duel with the weapons and in the environments of their choosing -- with no ultimate harm to anyone. Suddenly Odal, a warrior from the Kerak empire, somehow manages to send the Acquatainian prime minister into an irreversible coma in the dueling machine. Odal actually kills others in the machine, and the inventor Albertus Leoh can't figure out what's wrong. Leoh and his young Star Watch liaison, Jr. Lt. Hector, will eventually face Odal in the dueling machine, while Kerak obviously gears up to attack Acquataine and then even the Terran Commonwealth. How can they be stopped
 The Watchmen Onimbus
Star Watchman
The Dueling Machine
Exiles

Exiled from Earth
H. Lawrence Hoffman

Flight of Exiles
H. Lawrence Hoffman

End of Exile
H. Lawrence Hoffman

Exiles Trilogy
Chris Moore

Exiled from Earth
A rapidly paced, tightly plotted story of a not-too-distant future when the planet is ruled by a powerful World Government. Overpopulation is one of its continuing concerns, and when the world's geneticists and biochemists are close to a breakthrough that will make possible the modification of the human embryo to remove unfavorable characteristics or to implant desirable onces, the World Government acts secretly and ruthlessly. In a swooping roundup, the scientists and their families are removed to a satellite orbiting the earth.
Flight of Exiles
A group of scientist-exiles face an outbreak of fire on their starship as it nears the end of its fifty year flight.
 End of Exile
Born and brought up on a space ship that is slowly deteriorating, Linc discovers its secrets and the way to get the remaining occupants to their ultimate destination.
Exiles Trilogy
Kinsman

Kinsman
Chris Moore

Millenium
Chris Moore

Kinsman Saga Omnibus
Pat Rawlins

Kinsman
To Chet Kinsman, space held the promise of peace and beauty that Earth denied him - yet it was Kinsman who stained the purity of space with murder. His atonement shaped his life and the destiny of his planet - and drew him inexorably to use, and finally betray, those closest to him.
Millenium
We are thrust into the terrifying world of the future in this chilling novel about people and politics in the year 1999. The Earth's populations has soared to eight billion. The two major powers are on the brink of nuclear war as the vie for control of the planet's dwindling supply of natural resources.
Kinsman Saga Omnibus
Hero or Killer?
In a startling future that's coming closer every year, Chet Kinsman is an astronaut ace who has done everything in space - including committing the first murder. It's a secret he can never escape, not even on the Moon, where he's head of the first U.S. lunar colony.
But suddenly, a series of shocking yet strangely inevitable circumstances forces Kinsman to confront his hidden past and decide Earth's destiny. In a desperate countdown to nuclear annihilation, Kinsman struggles against a deadly paradox: if he rescues the world, he may end up destroying himself.
Kinsman
Millenium
The Lieutenant and the Folksinger 
Zero Gee 
Test in Orbit 
Fifteen Miles 
Build Me a Mountain
The Voyagers

Voyagers

The Alien Within
Boris Vallejo

Star Brothers
David Hardy

The Return
Thom Tenery

Voyagers
Mankind's long dream and secret fear had at last come true
The americans were the first to pick up the transmission. Radio pulses from the vicinity of Jupiter, they had a regular pattern and frequency never encountered before.
Then the orbiting telescope, the Big Eye, showed an object circling Jupiter. Not a moonlet or captured meteorite, it was an artificial craft, the product of intelligent life.
At once an absolute security screen was imposed. When the Russians picked up the signals, they also realised the implications. and imposed a total security blanket.
But the alien craft changed its orbit, moved away from the huge planet and set its course for Earth. Intelligent life was coming to meet intelligent life and no security system devised by Man could keep the news secret.
The Alien Within
When Keith Stoner awoke, he found himself in a world changed almost beyond recognition. Eighteen years before, Stoner had been the American member of a joint U.S.-Soviet mission to capture an alien ship which had entered the solar system. It was the greatest adventure in the history of Earth - but disaster struck when a bomb placed on the Soviet craft forced its recall. Stoner refused to allow such a gift to escape humankind, and, removing his spacesuit within the strange ship, fell into suspended animation.
Jo Camerata, the ambitious young student who fell in love with Stoner, is now head of Vanguard Industries. Jo's dogged determination has forced the recovery of the alien ship, and now her company is in control of the vast new technology and the fortune it reaps - and in control of Keith Stoner. What Camerata doesn't know, however, is that someone else has been awakened. Someone who dwells within Stoner's mind. The alien presence that has kept Stoner alive all these years is now free and intends to explore our world.
And will let nothing stand in its way.
Star Brothers
Keith Stoner lay frozen in an alien spacecraft for fifteen long years; during that time he came to be something more than just an astronaut, just a man. Stoner became partly alien hismelf -- merged with an alien intelligence embodied in the nanotechnology that lived inside Stoner's body.
The alien whose tomb that spacecraft was, brought humanity both a blessing and a deadly peril. The technology now the control of Vanguard Industries has changed the face of the earth. The technology that lives in Stoner's bloodstream will change mankind forever.
There are powerful leaders, both corporate and political, who are becoming aware of Keith Stoner and the power he seems to control. They want that power for themselves, and will do anything to gain it. Nothing Stoner can say or do will convince these ruthless men and women that the power they seek may destroy them utterly.
The Return
In the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically frozen. After his body was eventually returned to Earth and revived, Stoner discovered that he had acquired alien powers. Using these new powers, he built a new starship and left Earth.
Now, after more than a century of exploring the stars, Keith Stoner returns to find that the world he has come back to does not match the one he left. The planet is suffering the consequences of disastrous greenhouse flooding. Most nations have been taken over by ultraconservative religion-based governments, such as the New Morality in the United States. With population ballooning and resources running out, Earth is heading for nuclear war. Stoner, the star voyager, wants to save Earth's people. But first he must save himself from the frightened and ambitious zealots who want to destroy this stranger - and the terrifying message he brings from the stars.
To Save the Sun
w/A J Austin

To Save The Sun
John Berkey

To Fear the Light
John Berkey

To Save The Sun
A young woman approaches the Emperor of the Hundred Worlds with a plan to save Earth--through astrophysics and engineering--before the Sun explodes and wipes out the last genetically unaltered humans in the universe.
To Fear the Light
Two hundred years ago, astrophysicist Adela de Montgarde conceived the plan to forestall the death of the Earth's sun. Now Adela emerges from cold sleep to oversee the final stages of her great work. She awakens to an Empire transformed--her son Eric is Emperor, faster-than-light travel has finally been achieved, and humanity has spilled out to innumerable new planets.

Privateers

Privateers
Chris Moore

Empire Builders
Boris Vallejo

Privateers
The US has abandoned its quest for the stars, and an old enemy has moved in to fill the void. The potential wealth of the universe is now in malevolent hands. 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. But, when the mineral-rich astroid he sets in orbit around the Earth is comendeered by the enemy, and his unarmed workers are slaughtered in cold blood, the course of Randolph's life id changed forever. Now cataclysm is aimed at the exposed heart of America-a potential catastrophe that Randolph himself inadvertently set in motion, And the maverick entrepreneur must use his skills, cunning, and vast resources to strike out at his foes hard, fast and with ruthless precision- and wear proudly the mantle that fate thrust upon him: Space pirate!
Empire Builders
Dan Randolph never plays by the rules. Now an ecological crises threatens Earth - and the same politicians that he outwitted the first time want to impose a world dictatorship to deal with it!
Sam Gunn

Sam Gunn Unlimited
Stephen Youll

Sam Gunn Forever

The Sam Gunn Omnibus

Sam Gunn Unlimited
Sam Gunn is the twenty-first century's greatest entrepreneur and its most hated public figure. Visionary, scoundrel, lover, liar, he is small in stature but larger than life, and his story is that of space exploration itself. He will make and lose fortunes from Earth to the Asteroid Belt, one step ahead of his creditors, one step behind his grand dreams. Through all his varied careers, Sam's goal will always be the same: to go where no one had ever gone before... and come back with a profit. Here is the rollicking tale of his amazing life, an adventure told by the men and women who loved or hated him but could never forget him as he carved out man's destiny amongst the stars.
Sam Gunn Forever
Sam Gunn has a nose for trouble, money and women--though not necessarily in that order. He's a hero without peer...or scruples; a man with the ego and stature of a Napoleon, the business acumen of a P.T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a newly pubescent teenage boy. He's Sam Gunn, the finest astronaut NASA ever trained...and dumped.
But more than money, more than women, Sam Gunn loves justice! (Though he does dearly love women and money.) Whether he's suing the Pope, coming to the aid of voluptuous twin sisters in the "virtual sex" trade, or on trial for his life on charges of interplanetary genocide, you can be sure of one thing: this pint-sized space jockey will meet every challenge with a smile on his lips, an ace up his sleeve...and a blaster in his pocket!
The Sam Gunn Omnibus

Moonrise

Moonrise
Paul Young

Moonwar
Paul Young

Moonrise
Moorise is the epic story of the first permanent human settlement on the Moon.
Brilliant, driven, visionary, former astronaut Paul Stavanger seizes his chance to use his power at Masterson Aerospace to colonize the last frontier, creating a viable, flourishing, nearly self-sufficient community at Moonbase.
When his son Douglas comes of age, his determination to carry on where his father left off brings him to Moonbase, and a crisis that can only be resolved by his triumph or its destruction.
Harsh, dangerous, strangely beautiful, the Moon becomes not just the background to their story but a living presence, leading both the Stavangers and their enemies onwards to glory, to disaster, and ultimately, to a new future for mankind.
Moonwar
The action begins seven years after the indomitable Stavenger family has realized its cherished dream of establishing a colony on the inhospitable lunar surface. Moonbase is now a thriving community under the leadership of Doug Stavenger, a marvel of scientific ahievement created and supported by nanotechnology: virus-size machines that can build, cure, and destroy. But nanotechnology has been declared illegal by the home planet's leaders. And a powerful despot is determined to lay claim to Stavenger's peaceful city...or obliterate it, if necessary. The people of Moonbase--a colony with no arms or military--must now defend themselves from earth-born aggression with the only weapon at their disposal: the astonishing technology that sustains their endangered home.
Grand Tour

Venus
John Harris

Jupiter
John Harris

Saturn
John Harris

Tales of the Grand Tour
John Harris

Mercury
John Harris

Powersat

Titan
John Harris

Venus
It is the most desolate place in the universe. With a surface blasted by temperatures hotter than any oven and an atmosphere heavy with sulphur, months from Earth by even the fastest spacecraft, Venus remains almost unknown even after a century of space travel.
But Alex Humphries, son of ruthless space tycoon Martin Humphries, disappeared along with his ship 'Phosphoros' into Venus's infernal atmosphere, and now Humphries has offered ten billion dollars to anyone who can bring his son's body home.
Two ships are soon on their way to Venus, seeking not just the money but also their revenge on Humphries. But when they enter the posionous hurricane winds of the unknown planet they find something so surprising, so unexpected, that it will change the whole course of space exploration.
Jupiter
Jupiter is a boundless ocean, ten time wider than the entire planet Earth. Heated from below by the planet's seething core, it is the widest, deepest, most fearsome ocean in the solar system.
Idealistic young American scientist Grant Archer joins a clandestine expedition to this awesome new world. But Grant does not share the ideals of the scientists he accompanies: he has been planted on their expedition by the New Morality, a religious group that wants to ferret out what the 'godless humanists' have discovered. His mission: to reassure the new religious leaders of Earth that Jupiter holds no intelligent life.
But unknown to the New Morality, Grant, though the son of a minister, is both a believer and a man who sees no reason why science and faith can not co-exist. He has come to the vast, planet-girdling ocean of Jupiter with an open mind, and he is about to tell his masters something that may shatter their conviction.
Saturn
Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us: SATURN Earth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis after crisis has given authoritarians the upper hand. Freedom and opportunity exist in space, for those with the nerve and skill to run the risks. Now the governments of Earth are encouraging many of their most incorrigible dissidents to join a great ark on a one-way expedition, twice Jupiter's distance from the Sun, to Saturn, the ringed planet that baffled Galileo and has fascinated astronomers ever since. But humans will be human, on Earth or in the heavens-so amidst the idealism permeating Space Habitat Goddard are many individuals with long-term schemes, each awaiting the tight moment. And hidden from them is the greatest secret of all, the real purpose of this expedition, known to only a few....
Tales of the Grand Tour
Sam and the Flying Dutchman
Monster Slayer
Fifteen Miles
Muzhestvo
Red Sky at Morning
Greenhouse Chill
High Jump
Death on Venus
The Man Who Hated Gravity
Appointment in Sinai
Sepulcher
Leviathan
Mercury
The closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is an airless, heat-scorched world where temperatures rise to four times higher than the boiling point of water by day and drop to one hundred and thirty-five degrees below freezing at night.
But this vision of hell is also a planet with unlimited solar power - worth a fortune to the space tycoon Saito Yamagata if he can find a way to harness it. He has hired the enigmatic Dante Alexios to establish a research station on the surface of the planet and find a way to turn that solar energy into portable power satellites.
Yamagata is secretly also preparing the way to a very different dream: he wants to travel to the stars themselves. And Alexios has his own obsession, a plot to lure an old enemy to this hellhole of a world and take his revenge for one of the worst disasters in human history.
Powersat
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. And it its wake is the beginning of the most important mission in the history of space.
America needs energy, and Dan Randolph is determined to give it to them. He dreams of an array of geosynchronous powersats, satellites which gather solar energy and beam it to generators on Earth, freeing America from its addiction to fossil fuels and breaking the power of the oil cartels forever. But the wreck of the spaceplane has left his company, Astro Manufacturing, on the edge of bankruptcy.
Worse, Dan discovers that the plane worked perfectly right up until the moment that saboteurs knocked it out of the sky. And whoever brought it down is willing and able to kill again to keep Astro grounded.
Now Dan has to thread a dangerous maze. The visible threats are bad enough: Rival firms want to buy him out and take control of his dreams. His former lover wants to co-opt his unlimited-energy ideal as a campaign plank for the candidate she's grooming for the presidency. NASA and the FAA want to shut down his maverick firm. And his creditors are breathing down his neck.
Making matters even more dangerous, an international organization of terrorists sees the powersat as a threat to their own oil-based power. And they've figured out how to use it as a weapon in their war against the West.
Titan
2095. After long months of travel, the gigantic colony ship Goddard has at last made orbit around Saturn, carrying a population of more than of 10,000 dissidents, rebels, extremists, and visionaries seeking a new life. Among Goddard's missions is the study of Titan, which offers the tantalizing possibility that life may exist amid its windswept islands and chill black seas.
When the exploration vessel Titan Alpha mysteriously fails after reaching the moon's surface, long buried tensions surface among the colonists. Eduoard Urbain, the mission's chief scientist, is wracked with anxiety and despair as he sees his life's work unravel. Malcolm Eberly, Goddard's chief administrator, takes ruthless measures to hold onto power as a rash of suspicious incidents threaten to undermine his authority. Holly Lane, the colony's human-resources director, must confront the station's powerful leaders to protect the lives of its people. And retired astronaut Manuel Gaeta is forced to risk his life in a last, desperate attempt to salvage the lost probe.
Torn by intrigue, sabotage, and an awesome discovery that could threaten human space exploration, a handful of courageous men and women must fight for the survival of their colony, and for the destiny of the human race.
Asteroid Wars

The Precipice
Mark Harrison

The Rock Rats
Peter Bollinger

The Silent War
Stephan Martiniere

The Aftermath
Stephan Martiniere

The Precipice
The Asteroid Wars Have Begun. Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiralling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only thing he has left - the company he founded, Astro Manufacturing. Martin Humphries, fabulously wealth heir of the Humphries Trust, also knows that space-based industry is the way of the future. But unlike Randolph he does not care if Earth perishes in the process. And he knows that the perfect bait to ensnare Dan Randolph and take control of Astro is his revolutionary new fusion rocket propulsion system. As Randolph - accompanied by two beautiful women who are also brilliant astronauts - flies out to the Asteroid Belt aboard a fusion-propelled spacecraft, Humphries makes his move. The future of mankind lies in Randolph's hands.
The Rock Rats
Martin Humphries - the fabulously wealthy, coldly ruthless owner of the greatest space-based industrial giant - has been checked, but his malice and ambition remain. He still dreams of bankrupting the rival space exploration company Astro Manufacturing and bringing the independant prospectors who are beginning to stake claims on large and small rocks of the Asteroid Belt under his control. And most of all, he wants to capture the love of beautiful Amanda Cunningham, the woman who spurned his money, and take his revenge on Lars Fuchs, the space prospector who both defied Humphries and married Amanda. His weapons will be piracy, sabotage and murder.
The Silent War
When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is led by indomitable Texan Pancho Lane, Humphries Space Systems by the rich and ruthless Martin Humphries, and their fight is over nothing less than resources of the Asteroid Belt itself. As fighting escalates, the lines between commerce and politics, boardroom and bedroom, blur—and the keys to victory will include physics, nanotechnology, and cold hard cash.
As they fight it out, the lives of thousands of innocents hang in the balance, including the rock rats who make their living off the asteroids, and the inhabitants of Selene City on Earth's moon. As if matters weren't complicated enough, the shadowy Yamagata corporation sets its sights on taking advantage of other people's quarrels, and space pirate Lars Fuchs decides it's time to make good on his own personal vendetta...
It's a breakneck finale that can end only in earth's salvation—or the annihilation of all that humankind has ever accomplished in space.
The Aftermath
In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the ore-carrier Syracuse. With his wife and two children he plies the Asteroid Belt, hauling whatever cargo can be found. When the Syracuse stumbles into the middle of a military attack on the habitat Chrysalis, Victor flees in a control pod to draw the attacker's attention away from his family. Now, as his wife and children plunge into the far deeps of space, Victor has been rescued by the seductive Cheena Madagascar. He must do her bidding if he's to have a prayer of ever seeing his family again.
Elverda Apacheta is the solar system's greatest sculptor. The cyborg Dorn was formerly Dorik Harbin, the ruthless military commander responsible for the attack on Chrysalis. Their lives and destinies have been linked by their joint discovery of the alien artifact that had, earlier, profoundly affected industrialist Martin Humphries. Similarly transformed by the artifact's mysterious powers, Apacheta and Dorn now prowl the Belt, determined to find the bodies of the many victims of Harbin's atrocities so that they can be given proper burials.
Kao Yuan is the captain of Viking, owned by Martin Humphries, who's determined to kill Dorn and Elverda because they know too much about the artifact and its power over him. But Viking's second-in-command, Tamara Vishinsky, appears to have the real power on board ship. When Viking catches up to Apacheta and Dorn, their confrontation begins a series of events involving them, the Zacharius family, and Martin Humphries and his son in the transformation of the human solar system…
Mars

Mars
Pamela Lee

Return to Mars
Greg Bridges

Mars Life
John Harris

Mars
To the harsh landscape of sol's fourth planet travel thirteen astronauts, the best scientists from eleven nations, on a history-making voyage into the unknown. The international crew of the Mars mission have spent nine months in space, crossing 100 million kilometres, to reach the last great frontier. Their voyage is fraught with disputes, both personal and political, and their time on Mars is limited to 'footprints and flags'; yet while there they come face-to-face with the most incredible and shocking discovery of all.
Return to Mars
Mars was the story of the thrilling first manned journey to the mysterious planet.
Now a carefully picked international crew of astronauts, engineers and scientists is on its way back. Leading them is Jamie Waterman, the man who defied the accepted wisdom of the scientific community - and the direct orders of his superiors - to discover life on the planet.
But there are those who still resent his success; others who have their own reasons to ensure that Waterman, with his almost mystic idealism, does not make the final decisions about the Second Mars Expedition. And among the crew is someone whose mental instability could lead to catastrophe for them all.
Mars Life
Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program.
Meanwhile, Carter Carleton, an anthropologist who was driven from his university post by unproven charges of rape, has started to dig up the remains of a Martian village. Science and politics clash on two worlds as Jamie desperately tries to save the Mars program and uncover who the vanished Martians were.
Novels


The Weather Makers
Jerome Podwil

Out of the Sun
James Gurney

As on A Darkling Plain
Larry Kresek

The Winds of Altair
Chris Moore

When the Sky Burned/Test of Fire
Jack Faragasso

The Star Crossed

City of Darkness
James Warhola

Colony
Boris Vallejo

Peacekeepers

The Multiple Man

Cyber Books
Boris Vallejo

Triumph

Death Dream
Gerry Grace

Brothers
Gerry Grace

The Green Trap

The Immortality Factor

Able One

The Weather Makers
In an age of cross-country rockets and undersea mining, weather is the last frontier of man, the one resource which remains untamed. An elemental power which can roar through the land with hurricane force, leaving death and destruction in its wake.
Out of the Sun
When an experimental USAF fighter explodes while pursuing a Soviet plane, a scientist must find out why.
As on A Darkling Plain
The alien machines stood on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Housed in huge buildings that made the space explorers from earth look like insects, the machines contunied to function as they had since beyond recorded time. Yet what their purpose was, and who built them, was a maddening, terrifying mystery.
Dr. Sydney Lee was convinced that these machines had een designed to destroy man, and unless the power that drove them and the beings that controlled them were discovered, they would succeed. But there was just one way to prove his theorey. Dr. Lee and his chosen crew were frozen and placed in a space ship to a distant star. When they returned to life, fifty years had passed. They were no older, but the time they had to find and destroy their enemy was perilously short...
The Winds of Altair
SURVIVAL... AT ALL COSTS?
Earth is an old planet, and her teeming masses are running out of resources... and time. A path to the stars seems the only answer and it is up to men such as Jeff Holman to discover a haven for Earth's millions. Altair VI is one such planet, and Holman is determined to transform this world into one where the human race can survive.
But in terraforming the planet, Holman discovers that Altair VI holds a terrible secret, and he is faced with a soul-wrenching decision -- for to make Altair VI habitable for humans, all native life must die.
Including a race that is as intelligent as Man.
When the Sky Burned/Test of Fire
On the moon, Alex Morgan's mother ruled with her sensuous beauty and superb intellect. Alex was heir to her high position, and to her hatred of the husband who had deserted her and her people for the lure of conquest on Earth. On Earth, Alex Morgan's father ruled a swiftly growing army and an explosively expanding empire, and welcomed Alec with the promise of more power than any man had ever possessed. Alec had left the moon a civilized man. Now as an outlaw rebel on Earth he was learning the savagery and cunning of his own nature. Whose son was he, his father's or his mother's?
The Star Crossed
It was the perfect 21st century program, with the perfect cast of characters: he, the virile, fearless sky-hero - she, an exquisite, otherworldly maid. On camera, they would brave the infinite dangers of the cosmos. While off-screen, the colossal TV ratings war exploded. Could a three-dimensional space opera command the fate of its creators - and the future of the media?
City of Darkness
He's passed his college entrance exams with flying colors. He can do pretty much whatever he wants. But what teenager Ron Morgan wants most is for his father to quit telling him what to do. Quit running his life. What better way to unwind than having a last blowout on Labor Day in the domed playground of Fun City: Manhattan.
Inside the dome, however, Ron loses his wallet and identity card. Worse, he's trapped when the dome closes for the season. There's no way out. Gangs roam the street. Food is scarce. Ron is on his own.
All Ron wanted was some fun. He'll be lucky to escape New York alive....
Colony
In the Future, Everything is Different. But Nothing Has Changed.
The Earth has been poisoned by pollution, choked by overpopulation, and ravaged by the mindless greed of power-hungry corporations. A fragile peace is threatened by landless revolutionaries and global anarchy seems imminent.
Yet a single ray of hope remains...
Island One is a celestial utopia, and David Adams is its most perfect creation—a man with a brain as advanced as any computer and a body free of human frailties. But David is a prisoner—a captive of the colony that created him—destined to spend the days of his life in an island-sized cylinder that circles a doomed and desperate home planet. Thousands of miles below him, a world trembles; its people cringe in terror and despair in anticipation of an impending apocalypse. And as Earth's boundaries, fate has cast one extraordinary human in the role of savior. For David Adams has a plan—one that will ultimately ensure the salvation of his species...or its annihilation.
Peacekeepers
Peacekeepers. Created by the Athens Peace Conference in the wake of nuclear war in the Middle East, assigned control of every nation's orbiting nuclear hardware, the International Peacekeeping Force's brief is to prevent any military action across national borders, anywhere in the world. Period.
The Multiple Man
It began with the discovery of a murdered man in a back alley behind the President's hotel in Boston...a man whose body had to be deposited in an anonymous grave for reasons not even Meric Albano, the President's Press Secretary, wanted to talk about.
As if that weren't bad enough, he soon discovered that there had been a previous murder, that one in the President's home state. Once again the victim had to be concealed, since he too was what no one wanted to admit—a dead ringer for the President.
Meric Albano admired his boss, and he wasn't about to sit by and see him replaced by a carbon copy. But how was he going to prevent the most heinous assassination of the century if no one could tell the victim from the killers...even if the victim was the President of the United States!
Cyber Books
Computer genius Carl Lewis has invented the "Cyberbook", an electronic device that instantly and inexpensively brings the written word to the masses. But not everyone warms to Carl's ideas. Add corporate spies, authors threatening to strike, and a wave of mysterious murders, and you have Ben Bova at his best.
Triumph
In a gripping alternative history, Winston Churchill hatches a daring plot to assassinate Josef Stalin as World War II comes to a close and the Allies battle over the future of the globe.
Death Dream
It's the ultimate adult playground. Cyber World will use the latest technology in computer produced virtual reality to provide thrills and chills beyond any ever experienced at a theme park. Here children of all ages will live out their wildest fantasies: fly jet fighters in combat, take part in a gunfight in the OK Corral, play in the World Series, or take a walk on the moon or a trip inside the human body.
Dan Santorini is hired to make sure that Cyber World, the virtual reality theme park of the future, opens on time. All too soon Dan realizes that he and his family are trapped in a nightmare world where dreams can literally come true.
Brothers
When genetic research yields the hope of immortality, two brothers, both doctors, find themselves on opposite sides of the controversy, and they must bridge the gap that divides them on an issue that could mean nothing less than life or death for millions.
The Green Trap
Microbiologist Michael Cochrane has been murdered. His brother Paul wants to find out who did it…and why.
Accompanied by a beautiful industrial spy, Elena Sandoval, Paul follows the trail from California to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Along the way, a lot of people seem to be interested in getting in their way, or discovering what they know. It's clear that Michael was working with cyanobacteria, the bacteria that crack water molecules and release free oxygen. It's less clear why this would get anybody killed. Or why oil billionaire Lionel Gould wants to pay Paul and Elena big money for the details of Michael's work.
Then the truth emerges: Michael had found a way to get cyanobacteria to crack hydrogen out of simple water molecules. A process that could be industrialized, producing enough hydrogen to cleanly power the world. Practically free fuel, out of one of the planet's most abundant resources: water.
No wonder everyone, from Middle Eastern heavies to hired domestic muscle, suddenly seems to be trying to get in Paul and Elena's way.
As the world's secrets—and their own—teeter in the balance, both Paul and Elena must decide what to do before it's too late.
The Immortality Factor
Some see stem-cell research as mankind's greatest scientific breakthrough. Others see a blasphemous attempt to play God. Suddenly, the possibility of immortality exists. Two brothers, both doctors, stand on opposite sides of the controversy. To Dr. Arthur Marshak, his work is a momentous gift to humanity. To Dr. Jessie Marshak, it is a curse. Between them stands a beautiful, remarkable woman both brothers will do anything to save.
Somehow, before it's too late, Arthur and Jessie Marshak must bridge the gap that divides them - on an issue that could mean nothing less than life or death for millions.
Able One

Gremlins Go Home


Gremlins Go Home
w/Gordon R Dickson
Tom Kidd

Gremlins Go Home
Several hundred years ago a band of explorers were marooned on Planet Earth. Alas, the Little People are not strong on gadgetry, and they have had to while away the centuries of their youth, living for the day when they could get off this god-forsken mudball, this most benighted, delolate--and boring!--planetary slum in the known universe. At last, the time has come. All they need now is a human--a young one will do--to help them hijack a Shuttle to take them to where their rescue awaits. And that shouldn't be too hard, for what All-American boy could resist giving a hand to a friendly leprechaun?

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