Battle Station
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From the Foreword:
"The sixteen stories and articles in this book deal with the prospects of war and peace in orbit, together with other glimpses of possible futures. Most of them treat directly with the military aspects of space. Others are devoted to allied facets of the human raceโs expansion into the solar system.
The nonfiction articles are based on the latest factual information available at the time of their writing, interpreted through my own experiences and opinions. The fiction shows what mere facts cannot: how tomorrowโs technology will affect individual human lives. ...
In the sixteen works assembled here you will see:
โขHow an International Peacekeeping Force might actually work--even when betrayed from within.
โขHow energy projectors firing pinpoint beams of light may spell doom for the "ultimate" weapon.
โขHow baseball may become a tool for international diplomacy.
โขHow computers may one day replace politicians.
โขHow telephones may become small enough to be implanted in your skull.
โขHow benign extraterrestrials may have already influenced human history.
Nobody wants the military in space. But they will be there. They are already there. If we are wise, we will see to it that they serve to protect the peace and defend the human race against attack."
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Ben Bova (1932-2020) was the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including Able One, Transhuman, Orion, the Star Quest Trilogy, and the Grand Tour novels, including Titan, winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. His many honors include the Isaac Asimov Memorial Award in 1996, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award โfor his outstanding body of work in the field of literatureโ in 2008.
Dr. Bova was President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, and a former editor of Analog and former fiction editor of Omni. As an editor, he won science fictionโs Hugo Award six times. His writings predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), electronic book publishing, and much more.
In addition to his literary achievements, Bova worked for Project Vanguard, Americaโs first artificial satellite program, and for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, the company that created the heat shields for Apollo 11, helping the NASA astronauts land on the moon. He also taught science fiction at Harvard University and at New York Cityโs Hayden Planetarium and worked with such filmmakers as George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry.
