The Sam Gunn Omnibus

Collected all together for the first time, all of SF master Ben Bova's tales of the irrepressible Sam Gunn

Now in paperback, SF master Ben Bova's tales of the irrepressible Sam Gunn

The final completed novel by Ben Bova Intergalactic explorer, venture capitalist, and Casanova Sam Gunn may be gone, but his legacy lives on in his son, Sam Gunn Jr. In his first-ever adventure, Sam Gunn Jr. sets off to fulfill his father’s left-behind mission of interplanetary enterprising. He soon learns his father’s shoes are tough to fill, but he is up for the task. Junior takes a journey through the stars, falling in love with beautiful women and leaving his unique mark everywhere he ventures. Soon, however, this trip through the universe takes a dangerous turn when Junior lands on Saturn and learns about a recent scientific discovery that will change everything, possibly forever. Will he be able to save the universe and live up to his father’s name? Take an unforgettable ride through space in master sci-fi author Ben Bova’s exciting novel!

No matter what strange forms the future takes, says Ben Bova in his introduction, crime and criminals will always be with us--and with them, the need for law enforcement. Included with many other stories are the full-length novel City of Darkness and Brillo--the famous collaboration between Bova and Harlan Ellison.

Incorrigible Sam Gunn, an interplanetary con man with a Napoleonic complex, undertakes a new set of adventures that have him scheming his way form one end of the solar system to the other.

Six-time Hugo Award-winner Bova presents a book about the side of the Moon that never faces Earth. It is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory and also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder.

Sam Gunn--visionary, scoundrel, lover, liar, and the twenty-first century's biggest capitalist pig--vows to go where no one has gone before and bring back a profit. Original.

On a mission to save humanity All that remains of human civilization is a fledgling colony on Concordia, a planet light years from Earth. Infighting and disaster dogged the colony’s earliest days, but through the determination and bravery of a few individuals, the remnants of humankind have clung to existence. One of the grittiest of these characters is Cherry Lindstrom. A farmer turned freedom fighter, she helped to lead the generational colonists’ rebellion. Now she must travel to the Galactic Assembly and persuade the leading powers to accept humans into their alliance. But everything goes to pieces when the Galactic Assembly is attacked. Hostile aliens who want Concordia for their own are determined to prevent Cherry from gathering support. She must fight, again, for what she believes in. Two thousand souls and the future of humanity are depending on her. So begins the second trilogy in the space colonization epic adventure, Space Colony One. Keywords: genetic engineering fiction genes, first Contact war, thriller & suspense action fiction, technothriller techno thriller, genocide, rescue mission, science fiction series, thriller series, battle, internment, alien predator, star book, sifi books, building empire, syfy, space opera books, alien planet survival, galaxy's edge, space warfare survivor, alien world, survive in space. Science fiction in the tradition of Frank Herbert, Lois McMaster Bujold, Andre Norton, Alastair Reynolds, and Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Hugo Award winner Ben Bova continues his grand tour of the human settled solar system with a fan-pleasing look at life in the Outer Planets, among the moons of Neptune. In the future, humanity has spread throughout the solar system, on planets and moons once visited only by robots or explored at a distance by far-voyaging spacecraft. No matter how hostile or welcoming the environment, mankind has forged a path and found a home. In the far reaches of the solar system, the outer planets—billions of miles from Earth, unknown for millennia—are being settled. Neptune, the ice giant, is swathed in clouds of hydrogen, helium, and methane and circled by rings of rock and dust. Three years ago, Ilona Magyr’s father, Miklos, disappeared while exploring the seas of Neptune. Everyone believes he is dead—crushed, frozen, or boiled alive in Neptune’s turbulent seas. With legendary space explorer Derek Humbolt piloting her ship and planetary scientist Jan Meitner guiding the search, Ilona Magyr knows she will find her father—alive—on Neptune. Her plans are irrevocably altered when she and her team discover the wreckage of an alien ship deep in Neptune’s ocean, a discovery which changes humanity’s understanding of its future...and its past. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Jordan Kell and his team return to a vastly changed Earth, where greenhouse flooding and climate shifts have transformed society and nobody wants to hear their warning about a radiation wave that is threatening all life on the planet.