Benjamin William Bova was born in the american city of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Temple university in 1954 with a Bachelors degree in Journalism and he got a job as a technical writer in 1956, remaining in the aerospace industry for 15 years. During that period he began writing Sience Fiction. His first book was The Star Conquerors (1959) while his first short story, "A Long Way Back", appeared a year later in 1960.
He has since studied at the Sate University of New York and recieved a Masters of Art Degree from there in 1987 and in 1996 he received a doctorate in education from California Coast University.
Ben has been actively involved in technology and the pursuit of science since the very dawn of the Space Age. He has made outstanding contributions to Science and to Science Fiction with over 115 books published to date. Ben has been a very successful futurist with many accurate predictions like the development of the Space Race of the 1960s, solar power satellites, the discovery of organic chemicals in interstellar space, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), the discovery of life on Mars, the advent of international peacekeeping forces, the discovery of ice on the Moon and electronic book publishing to name a few.
Ben has lectured at Harvard, directed Film courses in New York, worked with film makers including George Lucas, Gene Roddenberry and Woody Allen and is a very regular lecturer on subjects such as Immortality, Space Exploration and the Search for Extraterrestrial life.
Ben has also been an editor for a number of Magazines, is a past President of the Science Fiction Writers of America and has won many awards for his contributions both in the field of Science and Science Fiction.
