Sf-förfttaren och den tidigare redaktören för Analog, Ben Bova (han tog över
efter John W Campbell, var senare på Omni), har avlidit 88 pr gammal. Se bl a
denna nekrolog:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/books/ben-bova-dies.html
"Ben Bova was a hard-science guy - and a passionate space program booster - and
his visions of the future encompassed a dizzying array of technological
advances (and resulting horrors or delights), including cloning, sex in space,
climate change, the nuclear arms race, Martian colonies and the search for
extraterrestrials. In newspaper articles, short stories and more than 100
books, he explored these and other knotty human problems. Mr. Bova, who died on
Nov. 29 in Naples, Fla., at 88, had a background in journalism and technical
science writing, and his work was based in facts. He was determinedly not a
fantasy author. “Ben Bova is the last of the great pulp writers,” Gerald Jonas
wrote in The New York Times in 2004, reviewing “Tales of the Grand Tour,” a
collection of Bova short stories about exploring the solar system. “Not for
Bova the ambiguities and excesses of cyberpunk rage, nanotech noodling or
quantum weirdness,” he continued. “His characters resemble elements in the
periodic table, clearly defined by a few well-chosen traits.” "Reading Bova,”
Mr. Jonas concluded, “you are always aware of solid ground beneath your feet —
even when the protagonist is an alien life form swimming in Jupiter’s
world-girdling, 5,000-kilometer-deep ocean.”
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