Ben Bova Reading Order

43 books (1964–2015)

Start with Best of Science Fiction: No. 10, the first of 43 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Best of Science Fiction: No. 10 1964Buy 🇺🇸
2	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1968 1968Buy 🇺🇸
3	Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, July 1971 1971Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Many Worlds of Science Fiction 1971Buy 🇺🇸
5	Analog 9 1973Buy 🇺🇸
6	Science Fiction Hall Of Fame: The Novellas Book 2 1973Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IIB 1973Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A 1973Buy 🇺🇸
9	Cosmic Laughter; Science Fiction for the Fun of It 1974Buy 🇺🇸
10	Science Fiction Hall of Fame: The Novellas Book 1 1975Buy 🇺🇸
11	Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium 1975Buy 🇺🇸
12	Analog Annual 1976Buy 🇺🇸
13	Aliens 1977Buy 🇺🇸
14	Aliens: 3 Novellas 1977Buy 🇺🇸
15	Study War No More 1977Buy 🇺🇸
16	Weird Heroes Volume 6 1977Buy 🇺🇸
17	Analog Yearbook 1978Buy 🇺🇸
18	Novella 3 1978Buy 🇺🇸
19	Rod Serling's Other Worlds 1978Buy 🇺🇸
20	Destinies: The Paperback Magazine of Science Fiction and Speculative Fact 1979Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Best of Omni Science Fiction 1980Buy 🇺🇸
22	Alien Encounters 1982Buy 🇺🇸
23	Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor 1982Buy 🇺🇸
24	Analog: Writers' Choice Volume II 1984Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Best of the Nebulas 1989Buy 🇺🇸
26	Power 1991Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Williamson Effect 1996Buy 🇺🇸
28	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1997 1997Buy 🇺🇸
29	Are We Alone in the Cosmos? 1999Buy 🇺🇸
30	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2001 2001Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Best Of Analog 2002Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Hard SF Renaissance 2003Buy 🇺🇸
33	Analog, January/February 2005 2005Buy 🇺🇸
34	Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸
35	Nebula Awards 42 (2008) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
36	Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸
37	Going Interstellar 2012Buy 🇺🇸
38	Science Fiction Gems, Volume Four, Jack Sharkey and Others 2012Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Callahan Kids 2012Buy 🇺🇸
40	Writers for Relief 2013Buy 🇺🇸
41	Carbide Tipped Pens 2014Buy 🇺🇸
42	Science Fiction Gems, Volume 9 2015Buy 🇺🇸
43	Visions of the Future 2015Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2013–2013)

#	Title
1	Mars, Inc. 2013Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1971–1975)

Start with Exiled from Earth and read in order.

#	Title
1	Exiled from Earth 1971Buy 🇺🇸
2	Flight of Exiles 1972Buy 🇺🇸
3	End of Exile 1975Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2012–2021)

Start with Power Play, the first of 4 books in the Jake Ross series.

#	Title
1	Power Play 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Power Surge 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	Power Failure 2018Buy 🇺🇸
4	Power Challenges 2021Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1976–1979)

Start with Millennium and read in order.

#	Title
1	Millennium 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	Kinsman 1979Buy 🇺🇸

41 books (1985–2025)

Start with L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1, the first of 41 books in the L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future series.

#	Title
1	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 2 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 3 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 4 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 5 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 6 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 7 1991Buy 🇺🇸
8	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 8 1992Buy 🇺🇸
9	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future9 1993Buy 🇺🇸
10	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 10 1994Buy 🇺🇸
11	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 11 1995Buy 🇺🇸
12	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 12 1996Buy 🇺🇸
13	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 13 1997Buy 🇺🇸
14	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 14 1998Buy 🇺🇸
15	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 15 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 16 2000Buy 🇺🇸
17	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 17 2001Buy 🇺🇸
18	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 18 2002Buy 🇺🇸
19	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 19 2002Buy 🇺🇸
20	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 20 2004Buy 🇺🇸
21	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 21 2005Buy 🇺🇸
22	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 22 2006Buy 🇺🇸
23	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 23 2007Buy 🇺🇸
24	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 24 2008Buy 🇺🇸
25	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 25 2009Buy 🇺🇸
26	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 26 2010Buy 🇺🇸
27	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 27 2011Buy 🇺🇸
28	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 28 2012Buy 🇺🇸
29	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 29 2013Buy 🇺🇸
30	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 30 2014Buy 🇺🇸
31	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 31 2015Buy 🇺🇸
32	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 32 2016Buy 🇺🇸
33	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 2017Buy 🇺🇸
34	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 34 2018Buy 🇺🇸
35	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 35 2019Buy 🇺🇸
36	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 36 2020Buy 🇺🇸
37	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 37 2021Buy 🇺🇸
38	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 38 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 39 2023Buy 🇺🇸
40	L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future 40 2024Buy 🇺🇸
41	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 41 2025Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1996–1997)

Start with Moonrise and read in order.

#	Title
1	Moonrise 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Moonwar 1997Buy 🇺🇸

36 books (1961–2004)

Start with The Milky Way Galaxy, the first of 36 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	The Milky Way Galaxy 1961Buy 🇺🇸
2	Giants of the Animal World 1962Buy 🇺🇸
3	Reptiles Since the World Began 1964Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Uses of Space 1965Buy 🇺🇸
5	Planets, Life & Lgm 1970Buy 🇺🇸
6	In Quest of Quasars 1971Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Amazing Laser 1971Buy 🇺🇸
8	Man Changes the Weather 1973Buy 🇺🇸
9	Starflight and Other Improbabilities 1973Buy 🇺🇸
10	The New Astronomies 1973Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Weather Changes Man 1973Buy 🇺🇸
12	Analog Science Fact Reader 1974Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Fourth State of Matter 1974Buy 🇺🇸
14	Workshops in Space 1974Buy 🇺🇸
15	Notes to a Science Fiction Writer 1975Buy 🇺🇸
16	Science--Who Needs It? 1975Buy 🇺🇸
17	Through Eyes of Wonder 1975Buy 🇺🇸
18	Closeup, New Worlds 1977Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Seeds of Tomorrow 1977Buy 🇺🇸
20	Viewpoint 1977Buy 🇺🇸
21	High Road 1981Buy 🇺🇸
22	Vision of the Future 1982Buy 🇺🇸
23	Assured Survival 1984Buy 🇺🇸
24	Star Peace 1986Buy 🇺🇸
25	Welcome to Moon Base 1987Buy 🇺🇸
26	Interactions 1988Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Beauty of Light(With: Vonda N. McIntyre) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
28	First Contact 1990Buy 🇺🇸
29	Immortality 1990Buy 🇺🇸
30	Are We Alone In The Cosmos? The Guide To The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence 1992Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells 1994Buy 🇺🇸
32	Space Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Science of Interplanetary and Interstellar Travel(With: Anthony R. Lewis) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
33	Are We Alone in the Cosmos?(With: Byron Preiss) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Story of Light 2001Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Living Universe 2002Buy 🇺🇸
36	Faint Echoes, Distant Stars 2004Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1984–2011)

Start with Orion, the first of 6 books in the Orion series.

#	Title
1	Orion 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Vengeance of Orion 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Orion In The Dying Time 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	Orion and the Conqueror 1994Buy 🇺🇸
5	Orion Among the Stars 1995Buy 🇺🇸
6	Orion and King Arthur 2011Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2020–2021)

Start with Uranus and read in order.

#	Title
1	Uranus 2020Buy 🇺🇸
2	Neptune 2021Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1992–2022)

Start with Sam Gunn Unlimited, the first of 4 books in the Sam Gunn series.

#	Title
1	Sam Gunn Unlimited 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sam Gunn Forever 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Sam Gunn Omnibus: New Stories 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Sam Gunn Jr. 2022Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1996–1997)

Start with Aliens and Alien Societies(By: Stanley Schmidt) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Aliens and Alien Societies(By: Stanley Schmidt) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Space Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Science of Interplanetary and Interstellar Travel(With: Anthony R. Lewis) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Time Travel(By: Paul J. Nahin) 1997Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1968–2023)

Start with The System and read in order.

17 books (1973–2020)

Start with Forward In Time, the first of 17 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Forward In Time 1973Buy 🇺🇸
2	Maxwell's Demons 1978Buy 🇺🇸
3	Escape Plus 1984Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Astral Mirror 1985Buy 🇺🇸
5	Prometheans 1986Buy 🇺🇸
6	Battle Station 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	Future Crime 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	Challenges 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Future Quartet: Earth in the Year 2042 1994Buy 🇺🇸
10	Twice Seven 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Towers of Titan and Other Stories 2010Buy 🇺🇸
12	New Frontiers 2014Buy 🇺🇸
13	Mercury and Prometheans 2015Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Best of Bova 2016Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Best of Bova, Volume II 2016Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Best of Bova, Volume III 2017Buy 🇺🇸
17	My Favorites 2020Buy 🇺🇸

26 books (1967–2020)

Start with The Weather-Makers, the first of 26 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Weather-Makers 1967Buy 🇺🇸
2	Out of the Sun 1968Buy 🇺🇸
3	Escape! 1970Buy 🇺🇸
4	THX 1138(With: George Lucas) 1971Buy 🇺🇸
5	As On A Darkling Plain 1972Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Winds of Altair 1973Buy 🇺🇸
7	When the Sky Burned 1973Buy 🇺🇸
8	Gremlins Go Home(With: Gordon R. Dickson) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Starcrossed 1975Buy 🇺🇸
10	City Of Darkness 1976Buy 🇺🇸
11	Multiple Man 1976Buy 🇺🇸
12	Colony 1978Buy 🇺🇸
13	Test of Fire 1982Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Peacekeepers 1988Buy 🇺🇸
15	Cyberbooks 1989Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Trikon Deception(With: William R. Pogue) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
17	Triumph 1993Buy 🇺🇸
18	Death Dream 1994Buy 🇺🇸
19	Brothers 1995Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Green Trap 2006Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Immortality Factor 2009Buy 🇺🇸
22	Able One 2010Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Hittite 2010Buy 🇺🇸
24	Rescue Mode(With: Les Johnson) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
25	Transhuman 2014Buy 🇺🇸
26	Space Station Down 2020Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2015–2017)

Start with Death Wave and read in order.

#	Title
1	Death Wave 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	Apes and Angels 2016Buy 🇺🇸
3	Survival 2017Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2001–2007)

Start with The Precipice, the first of 4 books in the The Asteroid Wars series.

#	Title
1	The Precipice 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Rock Rats 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Silent War 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Aftermath 2007Buy 🇺🇸

27 books (1985–2025)

Start with Privateers, the first of 27 books in the The Grand Tour series.

#	Title
1	Privateers 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	Mars 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Empire Builders 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	Moonrise 1996Buy 🇺🇸
5	Moonwar 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	Return to Mars 1999Buy 🇺🇸
7	Jupiter 2000Buy 🇺🇸
8	Venus 2000Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Precipice 2001Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Rock Rats 2002Buy 🇺🇸
11	Saturn 2003Buy 🇺🇸
12	Tales of the Grand Tour 2004Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Silent War 2004Buy 🇺🇸
14	Mercury 2005Buy 🇺🇸
15	Powersat 2005Buy 🇺🇸
16	Titan 2006Buy 🇺🇸
17	Aftermath 2007Buy 🇺🇸
18	Mars Life 2008Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Return 2009Buy 🇺🇸
20	Leviathans of Jupiter 2011Buy 🇺🇸
21	Farside 2013Buy 🇺🇸
22	New Earth 2013Buy 🇺🇸
23	Death Wave 2015Buy 🇺🇸
24	Earth 2019Buy 🇺🇸
25	Uranus 2020Buy 🇺🇸
26	Neptune 2021Buy 🇺🇸
27	Pluto(With: Les Johnson) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2011–2011)

4 books (1981–2009)

Start with Voyagers, the first of 4 books in the Voyagers series.

#	Title
1	Voyagers 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Alien Within 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	Star Brothers 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Return 2009Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1959–1969)

Start with The Star Conquerors and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Star Conquerors 1959Buy 🇺🇸
2	Star Watchman 1964Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Dueling Machine 1969Buy 🇺🇸