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[i]My Uncle Ben... by marriage... science fiction icon, author, adventure lover, story teller, futurist, and my son's namesake, Ben Bova, has passed away this morning from COVID-19 related pneumonia and a stroke. Needless to say, he will be missed terribly by us and the the world.[/i]
The author of more than 115 futuristic novels and nonfiction books, [URL=http://benbova.com/]Dr. Ben Bova[/URL] has been involved in science and high technology since the very beginnings of the space age. President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, Dr. Bova received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, "for fueling mankind's imagination regarding the wonders of outer space." His "Grand Tour" novels, such as "Moonrise," "Mars," and "Titan" combine romance, adventure, and the highest degree of scientific accuracy to show how the human race will expand through the solar system, and the impact this will have on individual human lives and society as a whole. His nonfiction books, such as "Faint Echoes," "Distant Stars" and "Immortality," show how modern technology can be used to solve economic, social and political problems. In his various writings, Dr. Bova predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, solar power satellites, the discovery of organic chemicals in interstellar space, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), the discovery of life on Mars, the advent of international peacekeeping forces, the discovery of ice on the moon, electronic book publishing and zero-gravity sex. Dr. Bova taught science fiction at Harvard University and at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, where he also directed film courses. He received his doctorate in education in 1996 from California Coast University, a master of arts degree in communications from the State University of New York at Albany (1987) and a bachelor's degree in journalism from Temple University (1954). He was editorial director of Omni magazine and, earlier, editor of Analog magazine. He received the Science Fiction Achievement Award (the "Hugo") for Best Professional Editor six times. In 2001, Dr. Bova was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Bova was manager of marketing for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, in Massachusetts, and worked with leading scientists in fields such as high-power lasers, artificial hearts and plasma dynamics. Earlier, he was technical editor on Project Vanguard, the first American artificial satellite program. Dr. Bova was on the Steering Committee for the NASA/Space Transportation Association study on space tourism. He served on panels of the Office of Technology Assessment. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the National Space Society, a charter member of the Planetary Society and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.
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