“His characters resemble elements in the periodic table, clearly defined by a few well-chosen traits.” “Not for Bova the ambiguities and excesses of cyberpunk rage, nanotech noodling or quantum weirdness,” he continued. “Ben Bova is the last of the great pulp writers,” Gerald Jonas wrote in The New York Times in 2004, reviewing “Tales of the Grand Tour,” a collection of Bova short stories about exploring the solar system.
He was determinedly not a fantasy author. 29 in Naples, Fla., at 88, had a background in journalism and technical science writing, and his work was based in facts. In newspaper articles, short stories and more than 100 books, he explored these and other knotty human problems.
Ben Bova was a hard-science guy - and a passionate space program booster - and his visions of the future encompassed a dizzying array of technological advances (and resulting horrors or delights), including cloning, sex in space, climate change, the nuclear arms race, Martian colonies and the search for extraterrestrials.
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