Ben Bova

In 2007, Stuber/Parent Productions hired him as a consultant to provide insight into what the world may look like in the near future, for their film Repo Men (2010).

Also in 2007 he provided consulting services to Silver Pictures on the film adaptation of Richard K.

Morgan's hard boiled cyberpunk science-fiction novel Altered Carbon (2002). He was awarded the Robert A.

In 2000, he attended the 58th World Science Fiction Convention (Chicon 2000) as the Author Guest of Honor.

Bova is a member of the National Space Institute and was its director in 1981.

After leaving Analog in 1978, Bova went on to edit Omni, from 1978 to 1982. Bova held the position of President Emeritus of the National Space Society and served as President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

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".

Bova served as the science advisor for the television series The Starlost (1973) His novel The Starcrossed, loosely based on his experiences, featured a characterization of his friend and colleague Harlan Ellison as "Ron Gabriel".

In 1972, Bova became editor of Analog Science Fact & Fiction. At Analog, Bova won six Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor.

Editor of "Analog: Science Fiction and Science Fact" in the 1970s and "Omni" in the early 1980s.

Bova worked as a technical writer for Project Vanguard in the 1950s and later for the Avco Everett Research Laboratory in the 1960s. when they conducted research in lasers and fluid dynamics. .

Benjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932 - November 29, 2020) was an American writer. He was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, he was six-time winner of the Hugo Award, an editor of Analog Magazine, an editorial director of Omni; he was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America.