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Ben Bova Complete Bibliography

Browse books by Ben Bova in publication order, including standalone books, complete series lists, reading order, and publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 181 books / 20 series

American author Ben Bova is best known for his Grand Tour science fiction series and his award-winning novel *The Kinsman Saga*. A six-time Hugo Award winner, his works have sold millions of copies worldwide. This page provides the Ben Bova books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

Books by Ben Bova in Publication Order

1959 The Star Conquerors POoWOB / 1 Buy
1961 The Milky Way Galaxy POoNB / 1 Buy
1962 Giants of the Animal World POoNB / 2 Buy
1964 Star Watchman POoWOB / 2 Buy
1964 Reptiles Since the World Began POoNB / 3 Buy
1965 The Uses of Space POoNB / 4 Buy
1967 The Weather-Makers POoSN / 1 Buy
1968 The System POoSS / 1 Buy
1968 Out of the Sun POoSN / 2 Buy
1969 The Dueling Machine POoWOB / 3 Buy
1970 Escape! POoSN / 3 Buy
1970 Planets, Life & Lgm POoNB / 5 Buy
1971 Exiled from Earth POoEB / 1 Buy
1971 THX 1138(With: George Lucas) POoSN / 4 Buy
1971 In Quest of Quasars POoNB / 6 Buy
1971 The Amazing Laser POoNB / 7 Buy
1972 Flight of Exiles POoEB / 2 Buy
1972 As On A Darkling Plain POoSN / 5 Buy
1973 Forward In Time POoSSC / 1 Buy
1973 The Winds of Altair POoSN / 6 Buy
1973 When the Sky Burned POoSN / 7 Buy
1973 Man Changes the Weather POoNB / 8 Buy
1973 The Weather Changes Man POoNB / 9 Buy
1973 The New Astronomies POoNB / 10 Buy
1973 Starflight and Other Improbabilities POoNB / 11 Buy
1974 Gremlins Go Home(With: Gordon R. Dickson) POoSN / 8 Buy
1974 The Fourth State of Matter POoNB / 12 Buy
1974 Analog Science Fact Reader POoNB / 13 Buy
1974 Workshops in Space POoNB / 14 Buy
1975 End of Exile POoEB / 3 Buy
1975 The Starcrossed POoSN / 9 Buy
1975 Through Eyes of Wonder POoNB / 15 Buy
1975 Notes to a Science Fiction Writer POoNB / 16 Buy
1975 Science--Who Needs It? POoNB / 17 Buy
1976 Millennium POoKB / 1 Buy
1976 City Of Darkness POoSN / 10 Buy
1976 Multiple Man POoSN / 11 Buy
1977 Closeup, New Worlds POoNB / 18 Buy
1977 Viewpoint POoNB / 19 Buy
1977 The Seeds of Tomorrow POoNB / 20 Buy
1978 Maxwell's Demons POoSSC / 2 Buy
1978 Colony POoSN / 12 Buy
1979 Kinsman POoKB / 2 Buy
1981 Voyagers POoVB / 1 Buy
1981 High Road POoNB / 21 Buy
1982 Test of Fire POoSN / 13 Buy
1982 Vision of the Future POoNB / 22 Buy
1984 Orion POoOB / 1 Buy
1984 Escape Plus POoSSC / 3 Buy
1984 Assured Survival POoNB / 23 Buy
1985 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1 POoLRHPWotFB / 1 Buy
1985 Privateers POoTGTB / 1 Buy
1985 The Astral Mirror POoSSC / 4 Buy
1986 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 2 POoLRHPWotFB / 2 Buy
1986 The Alien Within POoVB / 2 Buy
1986 Prometheans POoSSC / 5 Buy
1986 Star Peace POoNB / 24 Buy
1987 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 3 POoLRHPWotFB / 3 Buy
1987 Welcome to Moon Base POoNB / 25 Buy
1988 Vengeance of Orion POoOB / 2 Buy
1988 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 4 POoLRHPWotFB / 4 Buy
1988 The Peacekeepers POoSN / 14 Buy
1988 Interactions POoNB / 26 Buy
1988 The Beauty of Light(With: Vonda N. McIntyre) POoNB / 27 Buy
1989 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 5 POoLRHPWotFB / 5 Buy
1989 Cyberbooks POoSN / 15 Buy
1990 Star Brothers POoVB / 3 Buy
1990 Orion In The Dying Time POoOB / 3 Buy
1990 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 6 POoLRHPWotFB / 6 Buy
1990 Battle Station POoSSC / 6 Buy
1990 Future Crime POoSSC / 7 Buy
1990 Immortality POoNB / 28 Buy
1990 First Contact POoNB / 29 Buy
1991 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 7 POoLRHPWotFB / 7 Buy
1992 Sam Gunn Unlimited POoSGB / 1 Buy
1992 Mars POoTGTB / 2 Buy
1992 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 8 POoLRHPWotFB / 8 Buy
1992 The Trikon Deception(With: William R. Pogue) POoSN / 16 Buy
1992 Are We Alone In The Cosmos? The Guide To The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence POoNB / 30 Buy
1993 Empire Builders POoTGTB / 3 Buy
1993 Challenges POoSSC / 8 Buy
1993 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future9 POoLRHPWotFB / 9 Buy
1993 Triumph POoSN / 17 Buy
1994 Orion and the Conqueror POoOB / 4 Buy
1994 The Future Quartet: Earth in the Year 2042 POoSSC / 9 Buy
1994 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 10 POoLRHPWotFB / 10 Buy
1994 Death Dream POoSN / 18 Buy
1994 The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells POoNB / 31 Buy
1995 Orion Among the Stars POoOB / 5 Buy
1995 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 11 POoLRHPWotFB / 11 Buy
1995 Brothers POoSN / 19 Buy
1996 Aliens and Alien Societies(By: Stanley Schmidt) POoSFWB / 1 Buy
1996 Moonrise POoTGTB / 4 Buy
1996 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 12 POoLRHPWotFB / 12 Buy
1997 Moonwar POoMSB / 2 Buy
1997 Time Travel(By: Paul J. Nahin) POoSFWB / 2 Buy
1997 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 13 POoLRHPWotFB / 13 Buy
1997 Space Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Science of Interplanetary and Interstellar Travel(With: Anthony R. Lewis) POoNB / 32 Buy
1998 Sam Gunn Forever POoSGB / 2 Buy
1998 Twice Seven POoSSC / 10 Buy
1998 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 14 POoLRHPWotFB / 14 Buy
1999 Return to Mars POoTGTB / 6 Buy
1999 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 15 POoLRHPWotFB / 15 Buy
1999 Are We Alone in the Cosmos?(With: Byron Preiss) POoNB / 33 Buy
2000 Venus POoTGTB / 7 Buy
2000 Jupiter POoTGTB / 8 Buy
2000 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 16 POoLRHPWotFB / 16 Buy
2001 The Precipice POoTAWB / 1 Buy
2001 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 17 POoLRHPWotFB / 17 Buy
2001 The Story of Light POoNB / 34 Buy
2002 The Rock Rats POoTAWB / 2 Buy
2002 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 18 POoLRHPWotFB / 18 Buy
2002 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 19 POoLRHPWotFB / 19 Buy
2002 The Living Universe POoNB / 35 Buy
2003 Saturn POoTGTB / 11 Buy
2004 The Silent War POoTAWB / 3 Buy
2004 Tales of the Grand Tour POoTGTB / 12 Buy
2004 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 20 POoLRHPWotFB / 20 Buy
2004 Faint Echoes, Distant Stars POoNB / 36 Buy
2005 Mercury POoTGTB / 14 Buy
2005 Powersat POoTGTB / 15 Buy
2005 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 21 POoLRHPWotFB / 21 Buy
2006 Titan POoTGTB / 16 Buy
2006 The Green Trap POoSN / 20 Buy
2006 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 22 POoLRHPWotFB / 22 Buy
2007 The Sam Gunn Omnibus: New Stories POoSGB / 3 Buy
2007 Aftermath POoTAWB / 4 Buy
2007 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 23 POoLRHPWotFB / 23 Buy
2008 Mars Life POoTGTB / 18 Buy
2008 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 24 POoLRHPWotFB / 24 Buy
2009 The Return POoVB / 4 Buy
2009 The Immortality Factor POoSN / 21 Buy
2009 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 25 POoLRHPWotFB / 25 Buy
2010 The Next Logical Step POoSS / 2 Buy
2010 The Towers of Titan and Other Stories POoSSC / 11 Buy
2010 Able One POoSN / 22 Buy
2010 The Hittite POoSN / 23 Buy
2010 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 26 POoLRHPWotFB / 26 Buy
2011 To Fear the Light(With: A.J. Austin) POoTStSB / 1 Buy
2011 Orion and King Arthur POoOB / 6 Buy
2011 Leviathans of Jupiter POoTGTB / 20 Buy
2011 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 27 POoLRHPWotFB / 27 Buy
2012 Power Play POoJRB / 1 Buy
2012 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 28 POoLRHPWotFB / 28 Buy
2013 Mars, Inc. POoBCB / 1 Buy
2013 Farside POoTGTB / 21 Buy
2013 New Earth POoTGTB / 22 Buy
2013 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 29 POoLRHPWotFB / 29 Buy
2014 New Frontiers POoSSC / 12 Buy
2014 Transhuman POoSN / 24 Buy
2014 Rescue Mode(With: Les Johnson) POoSN / 25 Buy
2014 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 30 POoLRHPWotFB / 30 Buy
2015 Power Surge POoJRB / 2 Buy
2015 Mercury and Prometheans POoSSC / 13 Buy
2015 Death Wave POoTGTB / 23 Buy
2015 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 31 POoLRHPWotFB / 31 Buy
2016 Apes and Angels POoSQTB / 2 Buy
2016 The Best of Bova POoSSC / 14 Buy
2016 The Best of Bova, Volume II POoSSC / 15 Buy
2016 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 32 POoLRHPWotFB / 32 Buy
2017 Survival POoSQTB / 3 Buy
2017 The Best of Bova, Volume III POoSSC / 16 Buy
2017 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 POoLRHPWotFB / 33 Buy
2018 Power Failure POoJRB / 3 Buy
2018 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 34 POoLRHPWotFB / 34 Buy
2019 Earth POoTGTB / 24 Buy
2019 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 35 POoLRHPWotFB / 35 Buy
2020 Uranus POoOPB / 1 Buy
2020 My Favorites POoSSC / 17 Buy
2020 Space Station Down POoSN / 26 Buy
2020 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 36 POoLRHPWotFB / 36 Buy
2021 Power Challenges POoJRB / 4 Buy
2021 Neptune POoTGTB / 26 Buy
2021 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 37 POoLRHPWotFB / 37 Buy
2022 Sam Gunn Jr. POoSGB / 4 Buy
2022 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 38 POoLRHPWotFB / 38 Buy
2023 Answer, Please Answer(With: John Betancourt) POoSS / 3 Buy
2023 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 39 POoLRHPWotFB / 39 Buy
2024 L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future 40 POoLRHPWotFB / 40 Buy
2025 Pluto(With: Les Johnson) POoTGTB / 27 Buy
2025 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 41 POoLRHPWotFB / 41 Buy

Complete Ben Bova Series Reading Order / browse all ->

01 To Fear the Light(With: A.J. Austin) 2011 Buy
01 Uranus 2020 Buy
Jake Ross Reading Order 4 books / 2012-2021
01 Power Play 2012 Buy
02 Power Surge 2015 Buy
03 Power Failure 2018 Buy
04 Power Challenges 2021 Buy
Orion Reading Order 6 books / 1984-2011
01 Orion 1984 Buy
02 Vengeance of Orion 1988 Buy
03 Orion In The Dying Time 1990 Buy
04 Orion and the Conqueror 1994 Buy
05 Orion Among the Stars 1995 Buy
06 Orion and King Arthur 2011 Buy
01 Forward In Time 1973 Buy
02 Maxwell's Demons 1978 Buy
03 Escape Plus 1984 Buy
04 The Astral Mirror 1985 Buy
05 Prometheans 1986 Buy
06 Battle Station 1990 Buy
07 Future Crime 1990 Buy
08 Challenges 1993 Buy
09 The Future Quartet: Earth in the Year 2042 1994 Buy
10 Twice Seven 1998 Buy
11 The Towers of Titan and Other Stories 2010 Buy
12 New Frontiers 2014 Buy
13 Mercury and Prometheans 2015 Buy
14 The Best of Bova 2016 Buy
15 The Best of Bova, Volume II 2016 Buy
16 The Best of Bova, Volume III 2017 Buy
17 My Favorites 2020 Buy
Standalone Reading Order 26 books / 1967-2020
01 The Weather-Makers 1967 Buy
02 Out of the Sun 1968 Buy
03 Escape! 1970 Buy
04 THX 1138(With: George Lucas) 1971 Buy
05 As On A Darkling Plain 1972 Buy
06 The Winds of Altair 1973 Buy
07 When the Sky Burned 1973 Buy
08 Gremlins Go Home(With: Gordon R. Dickson) 1974 Buy
09 The Starcrossed 1975 Buy
10 City Of Darkness 1976 Buy
11 Multiple Man 1976 Buy
12 Colony 1978 Buy
13 Test of Fire 1982 Buy
14 The Peacekeepers 1988 Buy
15 Cyberbooks 1989 Buy
16 The Trikon Deception(With: William R. Pogue) 1992 Buy
17 Triumph 1993 Buy
18 Death Dream 1994 Buy
19 Brothers 1995 Buy
20 The Green Trap 2006 Buy
21 The Immortality Factor 2009 Buy
22 Able One 2010 Buy
23 The Hittite 2010 Buy
24 Transhuman 2014 Buy
25 Rescue Mode(With: Les Johnson) 2014 Buy
26 Space Station Down 2020 Buy
02 Moonwar 1997 Buy
01 The System 1968 Buy
02 The Next Logical Step 2010 Buy
03 Answer, Please Answer(With: John Betancourt) 2023 Buy
Kinsman Reading Order 2 books / 1976-1979
01 Millennium 1976 Buy
02 Kinsman 1979 Buy
Watchmen/The Others Reading Order 3 books / 1959-1969
01 The Star Conquerors 1959 Buy
02 Star Watchman 1964 Buy
03 The Dueling Machine 1969 Buy
The Asteroid Wars Reading Order 4 books / 2001-2007
01 The Precipice 2001 Buy
02 The Rock Rats 2002 Buy
03 The Silent War 2004 Buy
04 Aftermath 2007 Buy
01 Aliens and Alien Societies(By: Stanley Schmidt) 1996 Buy
02 Time Travel(By: Paul J. Nahin) 1997 Buy
The Grand Tour Reading Order 20 books / 1985-2025
01 Privateers 1985 Buy
02 Mars 1992 Buy
03 Empire Builders 1993 Buy
04 Moonrise 1996 Buy
06 Return to Mars 1999 Buy
07 Venus 2000 Buy
08 Jupiter 2000 Buy
11 Saturn 2003 Buy
12 Tales of the Grand Tour 2004 Buy
14 Mercury 2005 Buy
15 Powersat 2005 Buy
16 Titan 2006 Buy
18 Mars Life 2008 Buy
20 Leviathans of Jupiter 2011 Buy
21 Farside 2013 Buy
22 New Earth 2013 Buy
23 Death Wave 2015 Buy
24 Earth 2019 Buy
26 Neptune 2021 Buy
27 Pluto(With: Les Johnson) 2025 Buy
Star Quest Trilogy Reading Order 2 books / 2016-2017
02 Apes and Angels 2016 Buy
03 Survival 2017 Buy
Voyagers Reading Order 4 books / 1981-2009
01 Voyagers 1981 Buy
02 The Alien Within 1986 Buy
03 Star Brothers 1990 Buy
04 The Return 2009 Buy
Sam Gunn Reading Order 4 books / 1992-2022
01 Sam Gunn Unlimited 1992 Buy
02 Sam Gunn Forever 1998 Buy
03 The Sam Gunn Omnibus: New Stories 2007 Buy
04 Sam Gunn Jr. 2022 Buy
01 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1 1985 Buy
02 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 2 1986 Buy
03 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 3 1987 Buy
04 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 4 1988 Buy
05 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 5 1989 Buy
06 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 6 1990 Buy
07 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 7 1991 Buy
08 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 8 1992 Buy
09 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future9 1993 Buy
10 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 10 1994 Buy
11 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 11 1995 Buy
12 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 12 1996 Buy
13 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 13 1997 Buy
14 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 14 1998 Buy
15 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 15 1999 Buy
16 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 16 2000 Buy
17 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 17 2001 Buy
18 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 18 2002 Buy
19 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 19 2002 Buy
20 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 20 2004 Buy
21 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 21 2005 Buy
22 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 22 2006 Buy
23 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 23 2007 Buy
24 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 24 2008 Buy
25 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 25 2009 Buy
26 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 26 2010 Buy
27 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 27 2011 Buy
28 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 28 2012 Buy
29 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 29 2013 Buy
30 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 30 2014 Buy
31 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 31 2015 Buy
32 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 32 2016 Buy
33 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 2017 Buy
34 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 34 2018 Buy
35 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 35 2019 Buy
36 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 36 2020 Buy
37 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 37 2021 Buy
38 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 38 2022 Buy
39 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 39 2023 Buy
40 L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future 40 2024 Buy
41 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 41 2025 Buy
01 Mars, Inc. 2013 Buy
Exiles Reading Order 3 books / 1971-1975
01 Exiled from Earth 1971 Buy
02 Flight of Exiles 1972 Buy
03 End of Exile 1975 Buy
Non-Fiction Reading Order 36 books / 1961-2004
01 The Milky Way Galaxy 1961 Buy
02 Giants of the Animal World 1962 Buy
03 Reptiles Since the World Began 1964 Buy
04 The Uses of Space 1965 Buy
05 Planets, Life & Lgm 1970 Buy
06 In Quest of Quasars 1971 Buy
07 The Amazing Laser 1971 Buy
08 Man Changes the Weather 1973 Buy
09 The Weather Changes Man 1973 Buy
10 The New Astronomies 1973 Buy
11 Starflight and Other Improbabilities 1973 Buy
12 The Fourth State of Matter 1974 Buy
13 Analog Science Fact Reader 1974 Buy
14 Workshops in Space 1974 Buy
15 Through Eyes of Wonder 1975 Buy
16 Notes to a Science Fiction Writer 1975 Buy
17 Science--Who Needs It? 1975 Buy
18 Closeup, New Worlds 1977 Buy
19 Viewpoint 1977 Buy
20 The Seeds of Tomorrow 1977 Buy
21 High Road 1981 Buy
22 Vision of the Future 1982 Buy
23 Assured Survival 1984 Buy
24 Star Peace 1986 Buy
25 Welcome to Moon Base 1987 Buy
26 Interactions 1988 Buy
27 The Beauty of Light(With: Vonda N. McIntyre) 1988 Buy
28 Immortality 1990 Buy
29 First Contact 1990 Buy
30 Are We Alone In The Cosmos? The Guide To The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence 1992 Buy
31 The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells 1994 Buy
32 Space Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Science of Interplanetary and Interstellar Travel(With: Anthony R. Lewis) 1997 Buy
33 Are We Alone in the Cosmos?(With: Byron Preiss) 1999 Buy
34 The Story of Light 2001 Buy
35 The Living Universe 2002 Buy
36 Faint Echoes, Distant Stars 2004 Buy

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Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.

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