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Also by Ben Bova:

Pluto, November 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Sam Gunn Jr., March 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
My Favorites, October 2021
Trade Size
Neptune, August 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Space Station Down, July 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
My Favorites, October 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Earth, September 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Uranus, August 2020
Paperback / e-Book
Space Station Down, August 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Survival, January 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Power Failure, October 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Apes and Angels, October 2017
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Apes and Angels, December 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Power Surge, May 2016
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Death Wave, November 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Power Surge, August 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Carbide Tipped Pens, December 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Leviathans of Jupiter, February 2011
Hardcover

Also by Eric Choi:

Carbide Tipped Pens, December 2014
Hardcover / e-Book

CARBIDE TIPPED PENS
By: Ben Bova, Eric Choi

Tor Books
December 2014
On Sale: December 2, 2014
400 pages
ISBN: 0765334305
EAN: 9780765334305
Kindle: 0765334305
Hardcover / e-Book
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Science Fiction

Seventeen hard science fiction tales by today’s top authors.

Hard science fiction is the literature of change, rigorously examining the impact—both beneficial and dangerous—of science and technology on humanity, the future, and the cosmos. As science advances, expanding our knowledge of the universe, astounding new frontiers in storytelling open up as well.

In Carbide Tipped Pens, over a dozen of today’s most creative imaginations explore these frontiers, carrying on the grand tradition of such legendary masters as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and John W. Campbell, while bringing hard science fiction into the 21st century by extrapolating from the latest scientific developments and discoveries. Ranging from ancient China to the outer reaches of the solar system, this outstanding collection of original stories, written by an international roster of authors, finds wonder, terror, and gripping human drama in topics as diverse as space exploration, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, climate change, alternate history, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, interplanetary war, and even the future of baseball.

From tattoos that treat allergies to hazardous missions to Mars and beyond, from the end of the world to the farthest limits of human invention, Carbide Tipped Pens turns startling new ideas into state-of-the art science fiction.

Includes stories by Ben Bova, Gregory Benford, Robert Reed, Aliette de Bodard, Jack McDevitt, Howard Hendrix, Daniel H. Wilson, and many others!