Ben Bova

Ben Bova: Science fiction stories often deal with spacecraft that zoom out to the stars ...

I'm on the wrong side of the law. The law of supply and demand, that is. I demand, but nobody's supplying.

I’m reading a very interesting book: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, by Michael E. Mann.

“When the looms spin by themselves we’ll have no need for slaves.”

“Save the environment!” How many times have we heard that plea? It’s an emotional appeal in a good cause.

Many years ago I wrote a short story titled, “The Great Moon Hoax or A Princess of Mars.”

The Department of Defense has canceled the Airborne Laser program.

In 1951 the science fiction magazine Galaxy published a short story titled “The Marching Morons,” by Cyril Kornbluth.

Writing is something of a mystical art.

“Science is just another way of looking at the world, no better than philosophy or religion or whatever world view you personally want to adopt.”

Ben Bova ... My sister sent me a video clip of George Burns singing one of his old, corny songs. “Sugar Throat,” as his wife Gracie Allen called him, wasn’t much of a singer.

The late astronomer Thomas Gold often said, "I'd rather be wrong than dull."

I write novels about the juncture where science and politics meet.

I had lunch with a retired schoolteacher a little while ago and, naturally, we talked about public education.

The background for this scenario is the inevitable climate shift, caused by global warming, that is already taking place, here and now. Whatever the causes of today's global warming, the fact is that our planet's climate is changing, as it ...