![]() ![]() He wrote an op-ed piece in 2012, in which he argued that atheists can be just as moral as religious believers. īova was an atheist and was critical of what he saw as the unquestioning nature of religion. In March 2013, he announced on his website that he had remarried, to Rashida Loya. Bova dedicated his 2011 novel Power Play to Barbara. That year he married Barbara Berson Rose. In 1953, while attending Temple University in Philadelphia, he married Rosa Cucinotta they had a son and a daughter. ![]() He graduated from South Philadelphia High School in 1949. Personal life and education īen Bova was born on November 8, 1932, in Philadelphia. ![]() ![]() During a writing career of 60 years, he was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, an editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, for which he won a Hugo Award six times, and an editorial director of Omni he was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America. Inkpot Award, Hugo Award for Best Professional Editorīenjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932 – November 29, 2020) was an American writer and editor. ![]()
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