Saturn - Hardcover

'One of sci-fi's great contemporary writers...Ben Bova writes good, authentic science' (Huddersfield Daily Examiner )

'I believe that the science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the world is Ben Bova' (Ray Bradbury )

'An epic space novel by an award-winning SF scribe' (Books Magazine )

'Bova is a masterful storyteller and the narrative is compelling, almost hypnotic' (Vector on The Rock rats )

'A splendid book . . of his many books, Mars must be the most important.' (Arthur C. Clarke on MARS )

'Slick pacing,techincally competent.' (Dreamberry )

'Another attention-grabbing entry in a series that continues to grow in stature ,scope and complexity.Once again,Bova in top form.' (Kirkus Reviews )

'Extraordinary . . . this kind of story is the reason science fiction exists in the first place.' (Orson Scott Card on MARS )

'RETURN TO MARS is an entertaining read, a good example of the bread and butter of the genre (Vector on RETURN TO MARS )

"Saturn was well worth the wait...what makes his brand of science fiction so enjoyable is that the technology to which he refers is wholly believable." (Steve Davis, Burton Mail. 20030322)

Born in Philadelphia, Ben Bova worked as a newspaper reporter, a technical editor for Project Vanguard (the first American satellite program), and a science writer and marketing manager for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, before being appointed editor of Analog, one of the leading science fiction magazines, in 1971. After leaving Analog in 1978, he continued his editorial work in science fiction, serving as fiction editor of Omni for several years and editing a number of anthologies and lines of books, including the "Ben Bova Presents" series for Tor. He has won science fiction's Hugo Award for Best Editor six times.

A published SF author from the late 1950s onward, Bova is one of the field's leading writers of "hard SF," science fiction based on plausible science and engineering. Among his dozens of novels are Millennium, The Kinsman Saga, Colony, Orion, Peacekeepers, Privateers, and the Voyagers series. Much of his recent work, including Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, The Precipice, and The Rock Rats, falls into the continuity he calls "The Grand Tour," a large-scale saga of the near-future exploration and development of our solar system.

A President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, in 2001 Dr. Bova was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He lives in Naples, Florida, with his wife, the well-known literary agent Barbara Bova.