Space Station Down - Paperback

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 "for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature" 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 fiction's 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, America's 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 City's Hayden Planetarium and worked with such filmmakers as George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry.

Dr. Doug Beason is the author of thirteen novels as well as two non-fiction books. A Nebula Award finalist, Doug has published over 100 short stories and other work in publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, Analog, Amazing Stories, Physics of Fluids, and Physical Review Letters. A Fellow of the American Physical Society and Ph.D. physicist, Doug retired as the Associate Laboratory Director at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was responsible for the people and programs that reduce the global threat of weapons of mass destruction. A retired USAF Colonel, Doug's last active duty assignment was the Commander of the Phillips Research Site and Deputy Director for Directed Energy at the Air Force Research Laboratory. He has worked on the White House staff for the President's Science Advisor, and was recently the Chief Scientist of US Air Force Space Command. A 1977 graduate of the USAF Academy, he served on the USAF Academy faculty as an Associate Professor of Physics and Director of Faculty Research.