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Benjamin William "Ben" Bova is an American writer. He is the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, he is six-time winner of the Hugo Award, a former editor of Analog Magazine, a former editorial director of Omni; he was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America. He lives in Florida. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. November 1932
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“Red tape has killed more people than bullets…”

Ben Bova

Source: Millennium

“I think it's perfectly OK to exploit the moon. Largely for two reasons: there's no life there, and it is close enough and rich enough in resources to be economically useful to Earth. In the final analysis, everything we do in space, if it does not help the people of Earth, all the people, it's not going to happen.”

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As quoted in "Men on Mars, Women on Venus" by Jay McDonald at Bookpage (June 1999)

“Your job is not to die for your country. Your job is to get the other poor sonofabitch to die for his country.”

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Orion Among The Stars (1995)

“My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky.”

Ben Bova

As quoted in "Men on Mars, Women on Venus" by Jay McDonald at Bookpage (June 1999) http://www.bookpage.com/9906bp/ben_bova.html

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