Ben Bova: Difference between revisions

| death_place = [[Naples, Florida]], U.S.

| occupation = {{Hlist|Author|essayist|journalist}}

| genre = Science fiction

| movement =

==Personal life and education==

|isbn = 978-1-55862-179-4}}</ref> Barbara Bova died on September 23, 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2009/09/barbara-bova-dies.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191020/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2009/09/barbara-bova-dies.html|url-status=dead|title=Locus sf&f news: ''Barbara Bova Dies''|archive-date=March 3, 2016}}</ref> Bova dedicated his 2011 novel ''Power Play'' to Barbara. In March 2013, he announced on his website that he had remarried, to Rashida Loya.<ref name="Ben"/>

Bova was an [[atheist]] and was critical of what he saw as the unquestioning nature of [[religion]].<ref name="FFRF">{{cite web | url=http://ffrf.org/news/day/dayitems/item/14639-ben-bova | title=Ben Bova | publisher=[[Freedom From Religion Foundation]] | work=FFRF Website | access-date=April 3, 2014 | author=Gutsch, Bonnie| date=November 8, 1980 }}</ref> He wrote an [[op-ed]] piece in 2012, in which he argued that atheists can be just as moral as religious believers.<ref name="atheists">{{cite web | url=https://archive.naplesnews.com/columnists/opinion/ben-bova-history-says-atheists-just-as-moral-as-believers-ep-388278393-342462321.html?print=1 | title=Ben Bova: History says atheists just as moral as believers | publisher=Scripps Newspaper Group | work=naplesnews.com | date=July 22, 2012 | access-date=April 3, 2014 | author=Bova, Ben}}</ref>

==Career==

Bova served as the science advisor for the television series ''[[The Starlost]]'' (1973)'',''<ref name="ws791020"/><ref>{{Cite news|date=November 2, 1979|title=Sci-fi author critical of TV|pages=31|work=Star-Phoenix|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64339006/sci-fi-author-critical-of-tv/|access-date=November 30, 2020|via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}}}}</ref> resigning as he lacked the "contractual right to remove his name from the credits."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Patterson|first=William H. Jr.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQPHAgAAQBAJ|title=Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better (1948–1988)|date=June 3, 2014|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-1-4299-8796-7|pages=349|language=en}}</ref><!-- Unsourcable:and left in disgust after the airing of the first episode (1973) --> His novel ''The Starcrossed'', loosely based on his experiences, featured a characterization of his friend and colleague [[Harlan Ellison]] as "Ron Gabriel".<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Weil|first1=Ellen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XvaIuzLV41gC&pg=PA120|title=Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever|last2=Wolfe|first2=Gary K.|date=2002|publisher=Ohio State University Press|isbn=978-0-8142-0892-2|pages=120–121|language=en}}</ref><!-- trivia and unsourced:Bova dedicated the novel to "Cordwainer Bird", the pen name Ellison uses when he did not want to be associated with a television or film project. --> In 1974, he co-wrote the screenplay for an episode of the children's [[science fiction|science-fiction]] television series ''[[Land of the Lost (1974 TV series)|Land of the Lost]]'', titled "The Search".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Erickson|first=Hal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8uUyBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA131|title=Sid and Marty Krofft: A Critical Study of Saturday Morning Children's Television, 1969–1993|date=March 13, 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-0784-9|pages=131|language=en}}</ref> After leaving ''Analog'' in 1978, Bova went on to edit ''[[Omni (magazine)|Omni]]'', from 1978 to 1982.<ref name="ws791020" />

==Published works==

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