The third and final level of the very best of Ben Bova, creator of the New York Times bestselling Grand Tour science fiction series, six-time Hugo award winner, and past president from the Country wide Space Society-a grand expert of science fiction storytelling. These tales period the five years of Bova’s incandescent career.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 will also discover tales of humanity’s incredible future on the planet, on Mars, and in the Solar Program beyond-stories that usually get the technology right. And Bova’s gathering of deeply understood, totally human heroes are the heroic, fearless, tricky, sometimes dastardly designers, astronauts, commercial magnates, politicians, and scientists who will make these futures possible-and those who often discover that the problems of tomorrow are usually linked to human values, and individual failings, that are as timeless as the stars.