The Science Fiction Hall of Fame by Ben Bova

In 1974, he co-wrote the screenplay for an episode of the children's science-fiction television series Land of the Lost, titled 'The Search'. īova served as the science advisor for the television series The Starlost (1973), resigning as he lacked the 'contractual right to remove his name from the credits.' His novel The Starcrossed, loosely based on his experiences, featured a characterization of his friend and colleague Harlan Ellison as 'Ron Gabriel'. At Analog, Bova won six Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor. In 1972, Bova became editor of Analog Science Fact & Fiction, after John W.

Career īova's novella The Towers of Titan was the cover story in the January 1962 issue of Amazing Stories, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller.īova worked as a technical writer for Project Vanguard in the 1950s and later for the Avco Everett Research Laboratory īova died from COVID-19-related pneumonia and a stroke on November 29, 2020, at the age of 88. He went back to school in the 1980s, earning a Master of Arts degree in communications in 1987 from the State University of New York at Albany and a Doctor of Education degree from California Coast University in 1996. He wrote an op-ed piece in 2012, in which he argued that atheists can be just as moral as religious believers.

īova was an atheist and was critical of what he saw as the unquestioning nature of religion. In March 2013, he announced on his website that he had remarried, to Rashida Loya. Bova dedicated his 2011 novel Power Play to Barbara. That year he married Barbara Berson Rose. In 1953, while attending Temple University in Philadelphia, he married Rosa Cucinotta they had a son and a daughter. He graduated from South Philadelphia High School in 1949. Personal life and education īen Bova was born on November 8, 1932, in Philadelphia. During a writing career of 60 years, he was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, an editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, for which he won a Hugo Award six times, and an editorial director of Omni he was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America.

Inkpot Award, Hugo Award for Best Professional Editorīenjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932 – November 29, 2020) was an American writer and editor.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame by Ben Bova