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Nobody foresaw that millions would watch on real-time TV when people first walked on another world. And next time…?

Cities became ovens. Grasslands became seas of flame. As the touch of dawn swept westward across the spinning planet Earth, its fiery finger killed everything in its path. Glaciers in Switzerland began to melt, floodwaters poured down on the burning, smoking villages dotting the Alpine meadows. Paris became a torch, then London. North of the Arctic Circle, Lapplanders in their summer furs burst into flame as their reindeer collapsed and roasted on the smoking tundra.

The line of dawn raced westward across the Atlantic Ocean, but as it did the brightness diminished. The sun dimmed as quickly as it had brightened.

Part of this novel was published separately, in substantially different form, as ‘When The Sky Burned’, copyright © 1973 by Ben Bova.

The irrepressible Sam Gunn.

A hero without peer or scruples, Sam Gunn has a nose for trouble, money, and women--though not necessarily in that order. A man with the ego (and stature) of a Napoleon, the business acumen of a P. T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a teenage boy, Sam is the finest astronaut NASA ever trained…and dumped.

But more than money, more than women, Sam Gunn loves justice. (And he really *does* love money and women.) Whether he's suing the Pope, helping twin sisters entangled in the "virtual sex" trade, or on trial for his life on charges of interplanetary genocide, you can be sure of one thing: this is one space jockey who'll meet every challenge with a smile on his lips, an ace up his sleeve…and a weapon in his pocket.

Now, for the first time between covers, Hugo-winner Ben Bova presents all the tales of Sam Gunn to date, including three never before collected in book form. Here is the entire chronicle of Sam Gunn, trailblazer and scoundrel, as he scams his way from one end of the Solar System to the other, giving bold new meaning to the term “venture capitalist.”

A young woman approaches the Emperor of the Hundred Worlds with a plan to save Earth—through astrophysics and engineering—before the Sun explodes and wipes out the last genetically unaltered humans in the universe.

It’s not easy running a hotel, and some of the most challenging problems are little ones!

Just in time for spring training, two power hitters return to our pages. Ben Bova not only writes about the future, he has helped create it. The author of more than eighty-five futuristic novels and nonfiction books, he has been involved in science and high technology since the very beginnings of the space program. President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of SFWA, Dr. Bova is a frequent commentator on radio and television, and a widely popular lecturer. He has also been an award-winning editor and an executive in the aerospace industry. Rick Wilber has sold about a hundred short stories and poems, and over one thousand nonfiction articles. He is the SF reviewer for the St. Petersburg and he edits the for the Tampa Mr. Wilber is a faculty member of the School of Mass Communications at the University of South Florida. He is also administrator of the Isaac Asimov Award for excellence in undergraduate writing that is co-sponsored by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and by this magazine.

Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program.Meanwhile, Carter Carleton, an anthropologist who was driven from his university post by unproven charges of rape, has started to dig up the remains of a Martian village. Science and politics clash on two worlds as Jamie desperately tries to save the Mars program and uncover who the vanished Martians were.

Ormai non ci sono dubbi: sotto le spoglie umane di John O’Ryan si nasconde una figura mitica, il leggendario cacciatore Orion. A crearlo è stato l’essere di un lontanissimo futuro che ha scelto di farsi chiamare Ormazd, e che con il suo aiuto intende condurre nel tempo e nello spazio una guerra spietata contro il più acerrimo nemico dell’umanità, Ahriman. Il primo scontro (in Orion, Urania 1038) sembra essersi concluso vittoriosamente, ma in realtà l’intervento di Orion ha causato una frattura nel continuum spazio-temporale, concedendo ad Ahriman e ai suoi neandertaliani un cosmo tutto per loro. Ormazd non ha affatto gradito la cosa e ha deciso di punire Orion strappandogli ciò che ha di più caro, per costringere il cacciatore a riprendere la sua battuta. Questa volta lo scenario-sarà il passato e la posta in gioco il salvataggio di Troia… perché Ormazd è deciso a cambiare addirittura la trama del tempo pur di distruggere definitivamente il suo nemico.

`ORION — il semidio la cui sorte è crudelmente manipolatadai Signori del cosmo — viene scagliato in un futuro lontanissimo denso di insidie: in quel particolare segmento dello spazio-tempo è infatti in corso una ferocissima guerra spaziale fra le razze di discendenza terrestre e le più feroci creature dei mondi alieni. Al comando di una guarnigione di terrestri pronti a tutto, John O’Ryan alias ORION comincia la sua ltta disperata. Resta un solo interrogativo: a chi gioverà questa ennesima guerra?

Can an experimental defense system stop North Korean missile strikes?

Ben Bova’s timeless hero returns . . . at the nexus of myth and history!

More than human, less than god, Orion has fought across time and space at the whims of his Creators, god-like beings from the future who toy with human history like spoiled children playing with dolls. From the frozen wastes of the Ice Age to far-flung interstellar empires, Orion has been both assassin and hero, all the while striving to be reunited with Anya, the ageless goddess who is his one true love.

Now Orion finds himself in Britain in the dark years after the Romans abandoned the island kingdom. Minor kings and warlords feud amongst themselves even as invading hordes of Saxons and Angles threaten to sweep over the land. There Orion befriends a young warrior named Arthur, who dreams of uniting his quarreling countrymen and driving the invaders from their lands. Along with a few brave comrades, Arthur hopes to the stem the tide of barbarism and create a new era of peace and prosperity.

But Orion’s vainglorious Creator, Aten the Golden One, has other plans for the timeline. Arthur’s noble ambitions interfere with Aten’s far-reaching schemes to reshape history to his own ends. He wants Arthur dead and forgotten---but Orion does not.

Defying his own creator, and risking his own immortal existence, Orion will battle the gods themselves to see that Arthur fulfills his destiny. But can even he save Arthur from the tragedy that awaits him?

Orion and King Arthur

Al tempo dei Condannati di Messina (Urania n. 601) vedemmo partire dalla Terra una singolare astronave-prigione con a bordo migliaia di indesiderabili. Ora sono passati cinquant’anni. Il gigantesco veicolo spaziale, la cui popolazione è più che raddoppiata, è in vista di Prossima Centauro. Ma dopo circa mille miliardi di chilometri nello spazio, come un’auto dopo centomila chilometri su strada, anche la più grossa e robusta delle astronavi comincia a dare dei fastidi. Ce la faranno i nostri esiliati ad arrivare su un pianeta abitabile? Il segnale d’allarme, l’incendio, i cinquanta morti con cui si apre il romanzo, permettono di dubitarne.

La possibilità di creare in via sperimentale, ma in grande serie, razze di superuomini e sottouomini, ci porrebbe già oggi problemi gravissimi. Ma su una Terra sovrappopolata, dove l’equilibrio sociale, economico, psicologico è appeso a un filo, gli scienziati responsabili di un così esplosivo progetto debbono essere fermati a qualsiasi costo. Come? Quando la persuasione non basta, e lo sterminio è impraticabile, si ricorre al vecchio sistema dell’esilio. Solo che qui si tratta di un esilio extraterrestre, di una Siberia cosmica. E una colonia penale formata dai migliori cervelli del mondo deve combattere duramente non solo per sopravvivere nello spazio, ma anche per trovare un sistema di convivenza accettabile, uno scopo, una meta.

Farà piacere ai nostri lettori siciliani sapere che in un futuro più o meno lontano Messina è destinata a diventare sede del supergoverno mondiale. La città, certo, non sarà più la stessa. Torri e palazzi fantascientifici domineranno, lo stretto; uomini dotati d’immenso potere e carichi d’immense responsabilità guarderanno pensosi verso la Calabria; e celebri scienziati di tutto il mondo si ritroveranno, sbigottiti, a Messina, trasportati qui con le buone e con le cattive insieme alle loro famiglie. Una gravissima decisione è stata presa al più alto livello: ancora una volta la scienza sta per mettere in pericolo mortale non solo la società ma l’umanità stessa. E la scienza deve essere messa in condizioni di non nuocere. L’ordine spietato (o pietoso?), necessario (o criminale?) partirà da Messina.

In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the ore-carrier With his wife and two children he plies the Asteroid Belt, hauling whatever cargo can be found. When the stumbles into the middle of a military attack on the habitat Victor flees in a control pod to draw the attacker’s attention away from his family. Now, as his wife and children plunge into the far deeps of space, Victor has been rescued by the seductive Cheena Madagascar. He must do her bidding if he’s to have a prayer of ever seeing his family again.

Elverda Apacheta is the solar system’s greatest sculptor. The cyborg Dorn was formerly Dorik Harbin, the ruthless military commander responsible for the attack on . Their lives and destinies have been linked by their joint discovery of the alien artifact that had, earlier, profoundly affected industrialist Martin Humphries. Similarly transformed by the artifact’s mysterious powers, Apacheta and Dorn now prowl the Belt, determined to find the bodies of the many victims of Harbin’s atrocities so that they can be given proper burials.

Kao Yuan is the captain of , owned by Martin Humphries, who’s determined to kill Dorn and Elverda because they know too much about the artifact and its power over him. But ’s second-in-command, Tamara Vishinsky, appears to have the real power on board ship. When catches up to Apacheta and Dorn, their confrontation begins a series of events involving them, the Zacharius family, and Martin Humphries and his son in the transformation of the human solar system…

Orion non è un uomo come tutti gli altri: tanto per cominciare, è immortale. Scelto dai Creatori per essere il loro campione nei frangenti più pericolosi e contro nemici insidiosissimi, è costretto ad andare alla deriva nel tempo per battersi contro i pericoli che si annidano in epoche e secoli nascosti. Insieme ad Anya, una ragazza che condivide la sua sorte, è costretto questa volta a lottare non solo contro le forze ostili ai Creatori, gli enigmatici esseri che reggono le fila del suo destino, ma contro i Creatori stessi per riconquistare la libertà. E la partita si decide in un’era lontanissima, dove la morte del tempo non è più metafora ma realtà.

«Né » en laboratoire sur David est parti vers la Terre, prêt à tout pour sauver la planète menacée, pour sauver ses frères humains.

Déjà la Terre est à feu et à sang, le Front Révolutionnaire des Peuples frappe partout, la navette spatiale de David est détournée… et il se retrouve dans une région perdue de l'Argentine.

Vers lui le hasard a conduit Bahjat, une jeune Irakienne, membre du F.R.P. Durant leur marche héroïque, une tendresse naît, qui n'empêche pas Bahjat de livrer David au chef de Front, à New York.

Maître de la Terre, le F.R.P. veut plus : conquérir source de toutes les énergies.

Dans le vaisseau qui fonce vers sa patrie, David, gardé en otage, imagine une riposte. D'une perfection technologique sans pitié. Bahjat périrait...

Il y va de la suivie espoir et avenir de l'homme !

Kosmiczna winda wywożąca na orbitę towary i ludzi to projekt inżynieryjny istniejący od XX wieku, teraz wreszcie staje się rzeczywistością. Dla inżyniera Bracknella jest ona dziełem życia, ale dla wielkich korporacji, które na tanim transporcie na orbitę stracą majątki, oraz dla Nowej Moralności, dla której budowa wieży w niebo jest obrazą Boga, stanowią cierń w boku. Zostaje zawiązany spisek i wieża runie w dół, grzebiąc w globalnej katastrofie miliony ludzi. Winnym zostanie uznany Bracknell, karą jest wygnanie Ziemi.

Inżynier traci dorobek całego życia, ale przypadkiem dowiaduje się o sabotażu i spisku i od tej pory całe swoje życie podporządkowuje jednemu — zemście na osobach winnych zniszczenia wieży i jego osobistej tragedii.

Once, Dan Radolph was one of the richest men on Earth, but now that the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, he must look to the wealth of the stars to save the economy. Martin Humphries is also aware of the potential of space-based industry, but he does not care if Earth perishes.

Born and brought up on a space ship that is slowly deteriorating, Linc discovers its secrets and the way to get the remaining occupants to their ultimate destination.

Die nicht allzu ferne Zukunft: Während die letzten Rohstoffe dahinschwinden, steht die Erde vor einer gigantischen Klimakatastrophe. Da fasst Dan Randolph, ein privater Raumfahrtunternehmer, einen so atemberaubenden wie riskanten Plan: Er schickt eine Expedition in den Asteroidengürtel des Sonnensystems, um die ungeheueren Ressourcen zwischen Mars und Jupiter für die Erde und ihre Bewohner zu erschließen und damit die Zukunft der Menschheit zu sichern. Doch er hat einen mächtigen Gegenspieler: Martin Humphries, Erbe des milliardenschweren Humphries Trust, dessen einziges Ziel es ist, sein Vermögen zu mehren und seine Macht auszubauen. Um Randolphs Raumfahrtunternehmen seinem Trust einzuverleiben, setzt er alles daran, dessen Expedition scheitern zu lassen …

Mit diesem Buch setzt Ben Bova die faszinierende Geschichte fort, die mit »Der Asteroidenkrieg« begann.