The Best of Bova, Vol. 1, Ben Bova
The Best of Bova, Vol. 1, Ben Bova
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The Best of Bova, Vol. 1

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki, Vikas Adam, Paul Boehmer, Orson Scott Card, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir, Alex Hyde-White, Jim Meskimen, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., various narrators

Unabridged: 15 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/02/2016


Synopsis

The first volume in a sterling collection of stories from legendary hard science fiction master Ben BovaThese are selected stories from Bova’s amazing career at the center of science fiction and space advocacy. He is the creator of the New York Times bestselling Grand Tour series, a six-time Hugo Award winner, and past president of the National Space Society. The very best of Ben Bova, these stories span the five decades of Bova’s incandescent career.Here are tales of star-faring adventure, peril, and drama. Here are journeys into the mind-bending landscapes of virtual worlds and alternate realities. Here you’ll also find stories of humanity’s astounding future on Earth, on Mars, and in the solar system beyond—stories that always get the science right. And Bova’s gathering of deeply realized, totally human characters are the heroic, brave, tricky, sometimes dastardly engineers, astronauts, corporate magnates, politicians, and scientists who will make these futures possible—and those who often find that the problems of tomorrow are always linked to human values and human failings which are as timeless as the stars.

About Ben Bova

Ben Bova (1932–2020), six-time Hugo Award winner, wrote over one hundred futuristic novels and nonfiction books. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and his novel Titan won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel of 2006.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and a multiaward-winning narrator, named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.

About Vikas Adam

Vikas Adam is a classically trained actor who has performed on stage, film, and television. He has also recorded over one hundred audiobooks, for which he has garnered numerous awards and nominations, including Earphones, various Best of the Year lists, and the Audie Award. When not recording, acting, or directing, he can be found lecturing in the Theater Department at UCLA.

About Paul Boehmer

J. Paul Boehmer, an American actor best known for appearances in the Star Trek universe, has narrated numerous audiobooks, winning nine AudioFile Earphones Awards and two Audie Awards.

About Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card, the author of the New York Times bestseller Ender’s Game, has won several Hugo and Nebula awards for his works of speculative fiction. His Ender novels are widely read by adults and younger readers and are increasingly used in schools. Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy, American-frontier fantasy, biblical novels, poetry, plays, and scripts.

About Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison, a multiple award-winning author, has narrated numerous audiobooks, both of his own writing and others, including books by Orson Scott Card, Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Williamson, and Terry Pratchett. His readings have won two Listen Up Awards and an Audie Award in 1999 for Best Solo Narration.

About Gabrielle de Cuir

Gabrielle de Cuir, an Audie and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles, and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. 

About Alex Hyde-White

Alex Hyde-White is an actor and a producer of two films and hundreds of audiobooks thru his label Punch Audio.

About Jim Meskimen

Jim Meskimen is a stage, film, and television actor who has appeared in many well-known movies and television shows. He acted in Apollo 13 and Frost/Nixon, both of which were nominated for Best Picture Oscars. He is the winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Tamra Meskimen.

About Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (1918–2014) was an actor who trained at the Yale School of Drama, as well as a narrator, voice-over artist, director, and award-winning producer best known for his TV role in 77 Sunset Strip.


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