Ben Bova bibliography

• The Many Worlds of Science Fiction (1971), ISBN 0-525-34550-7
• The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two, (1973), Volume two A OCLC 12264834 and Volume two B OCLC 12264899
• Aliens. Orbit. 1977. ISBN 0-86007-958-9.
• The Best of the Nebulas (1989), ISBN 0-312-93175-1
• The Future Quartet  –— Earth in the Year 2042 (1995)
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (2008)
• Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction, edited by Ben Bova and Eric Choi (2014), ISBN 978-0-7653-3430-5

• Exiled from Earth (1971)
• Flight of Exiles (1972)
• End of Exile (1975)

Bova's Grand Tour series of novels presents a fictional treatment of human colonization of the Solar System in the late 21st century. Following Bova's suggested chronology, these are:[3]

Bova also published a short story collection including stories that span much of the timeline, called Tales of the Grand Tour (2004)[3]

• Sam Gunn, Unlimited (1993) (short-story collection)
• Sam Gunn Forever (1998) (short-story collection)
• Sam Gunn Omnibus (2007)

• The Weathermakers (1967) Back-story of a major character from Millennium
• Millennium (1976)
• Colony (1978)
• Kinsman (1979)
• The Kinsman Saga (1987) (combines Millennium (1976) and Kinsman (1979); includes introduction and narrative by Bova explaining the reworking of these two novels)

• Out of the Sun. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 1968. ISBN 978-0-8125-3210-4.
• Escape! (1969)
• THX 1138 (with George Lucas) (1971), based on the film THX 1138
• When the Sky Burned (1972)
• Gremlins, Go Home! (with Gordon Dickson) (1974)
• The Starcrossed (1975)
• The Multiple Man (1976)
• City of Darkness (1976)
• Test of Fire (1982) (A revised version of When the Sky Burned)
• The Winds of Altair (1973) (Revised 1983)
• Peacekeepers (1988)
• Cyberbooks (1989)
• The Trikon Deception (with Bill Pogue) (1992)
• Triumph (1993), ISBN 0-312-85359-9 (alternate-history work, set at the end of World War II, in which Winston Churchill plots the assassination of Joseph Stalin, and in which Franklin D. Roosevelt lives past 1945)
• Death Dream (1994)
• Brothers. NEL. 1995. ISBN 0-450-61335-6. – expanded edition later republished as The Immortality Factor
• The Green Trap (2006)
• Laugh Lines (2008) (A collection of short stories, 'The Starcrossed' and 'Cyberbooks')
• The Immortality Factor. Tor. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7653-0525-1. – earlier shorter edition published as Brothers
• The Hittite (2010) (A retelling of the Iliad)
• Able One (2010)
• Mars, Inc.: The Billionaire's Club. Baen. 2013. ISBN 978-1-4516-3934-6. – a "parallel" version of the exploration of Mars, where private enterprise (and not a government program) drives the conquest.[4]
• Transhuman (2014)
• Rescue Mode (with Les Johnson) (2014)
• Space Station Down (with Doug Beason) (2020)

• Power Play (2011)
• Power Surge (2015)
• Power Failure (2018)

• Orion (1984)
• Vengeance of Orion (1988)
• Orion in the Dying Time (1990)
• Orion and the Conqueror (1994)
• Orion Among the Stars (1995)
• Orion and King Arthur (2011)

• To Save the Sun (with A.J. Austin) (1992)
• To Fear the Light (with A.J. Austin) (1994)

• Voyagers (1981, volume I)
• The Alien Within (1986, volume II)
• Star Brothers (1990, volume III)
• The Return (2009, volume IV)

• The Star Conquerors (1959)
• Star Watchman (1964)
• The Dueling Machine (1969)
• As on a Darkling Plain (1972)

• New Earth (2013)
• Death Wave (2015)
• Apes and Angels (2016)
• Survival (2017)

• The amazing laser. Westminster Press. 1971.
• The Milky Way Galaxy. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 1961.
• Man Changes the Weather. 1973.
• The Weather Changes Man. Addison-Wesley. 1974. ISBN 0-201-00555-7.[5]
• In Quest of Quasars. Signet. 1975. ISBN 0-451-61411-9.
• Starflight and Other Improbabilities. Westminster Press. 1973. ISBN 0-664-32520-3
• Notes to a Science Fiction Writer. Houghton Mifflin. 1975. ISBN 978-0684144344
• The High Road Houghton Mifflin. 1981. ISBN 0-395-31288-4
• Assured Survival: Putting The Star Wars Defense In Perspective. 1984. UG743.B68
• Welcome to Moonbase. Ballantine. 1987.
• The Beauty of Light. John Wiley & Sons. 1988. ISBN 0-471-62580-9.
• The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells. Writers Digest Books. 1994. ISBN 0-89879-600-8
• Immortality. 1998.
• Are We Alone in the Cosmos?. 1999.
• The Story of Light. 2001.
• "Sex in space". Science. F&SF. 100 (2): 124–129. Feb 2001.
• Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth. 2004.
• "Across My Life ...". Analog. 130 (1&2): 112–114. Jan–Feb 2010.