<p>The second volume of the best stories from legendary hard science fiction writer Ben Bova the creator of the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling Grand Tour science fiction series a six-time Hugo award winner and past president of the National Space Society.</p><p>The stories included in this volume span the five decades of Bova’s incandescent career at the center of science fiction and space advocacy.</p><p>Here are tales of star-faring adventure peril and drama. Here are journeys into the mind-bending landscapes of virtual worlds and alternate realities. Here you’ll also find stories of humanity’s astounding future on Earth on Mars and in the Solar System beyond—stories that always get the science <i>right</i>. And Bova’s gathering of deeply realized totally human characters are the heroic brave tricky sometimes dastardly engineers astronauts corporate magnates politicians and scientists who will make these futures possible—and those who often find that the problems of tomorrow are always linked to human values and human failings that are as timeless as the stars.</p>