![]() ![]() I like how the book goes into detail in the character's backgrounds to help the reader understand them, and help the reader to sympathize with the villians of the story. I think this book is fairly realistic in its perception of virtual realities potential for good and for harmful purposes. Dan heads back to his old job to try and investigate the death. His old boss calls him, and asks him to help figure out what went wrong with the simulation. Dan is troubled by the death in his simulation and also being told that he was only hired at parareality to make his old coworker, Jace, happy. Another strange occurance in the virtual reality technology is that Dan's daughter keeps seeing his boss, Kyle Muncrief, in the simulations. At Dan's old job, the Air Force base, someone dies while using the simulation he designed. ![]() The protagonist, Dan Santorini is hired to work at a company called parareality. In 2007, he was hired as a consultant by both Stuber/Parent Productions to provide insight into what the world is to look like in the near future for their upcoming film "Repossession Mambo" (released as "Repo Men") starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker and by Silver Pictures in which he provided consulting services on the feature adaptation of Richard Morgan's "Altered Carbon". Hollywood has started to take an interest in Bova's works once again, in addition to his wealth of knowledge about science and what the future may look like. In 2000, he was the Author Guest of Honor at the 58th World Science Fiction Convention (Chicon 2000). in 1996.īova has drawn on these meetings and experiences to create fact and fiction writings rich with references to spaceflight, lasers, artificial hearts, nanotechnology, environmentalism, fencing and martial arts, photography and artists.īova was the author of over a hundred and fifteen books, non-fiction as well as science fiction. He dedicated the novel to "Cordwainer Bird", the pen name Harlan Ellison uses when he does not want to be associated with a television or film project.īova was the President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past President of Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).īova went back to school in the 1980s, earning an M.A. His novel The Starcrossed was loosely based on his experiences and featured a thinly veiled characterization of his friend and colleague Harlan Ellison. ![]() In 1974 he wrote the screenplay for an episode of the children's science fiction television series Land of the Lost entitled "The Search".īova was the science advisor for the failed television series The Starlost, leaving in disgust after the airing of the first episode. After leaving Analog, he went on to edit Omni during 1978-1982. In 1971 he became editor of Analog Science Fiction after John W. Kantrowitz later of the Foresight Institute. He was an environmentalist, but rejected Luddism.īova was a technical writer for Project Vanguard and later for Avco Everett in the 1960s when they did research in lasers and fluid dynamics. In that same year he married Barbara Berson Rose.īova was an avid fencer and organized Avco Everett's fencing club. In 1953, while attending Temple University, he married Rosa Cucinotta, they had a son and a daughter. ![]() Ben Bova was born on Novemin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ![]()
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