Last night, I finished ADF's The Director Should Have Shot You.
This morning, for the first time in close to five decades, I read the first chapter of Ben Bova's Escape. It's a novel (really, by length, little more than a novella) about a juvenile delinquent, given an indeterminate sentence at an extremely high-tech reform school. Like the copy I read before, it was published by Scholastic, in case there was any doubt in anybody's mind that it's a youth novel.
In many ways, my vague memories of the book (along with a real-life youth ranch charity that I support) informed and inspired a fictional institution that gets passing mention in my own novel-in-progress, an institution I call "The Roger Williams Interfaith Ranch for Troubled Youth." (And yes, that Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, and father of church-state separation in North America.) But enough of my own writings.
So far as I can recall, this is the only work of Ben Bova's science fiction I've ever read. I do, however, recall reading some of his science books (although I can't recall any specific titles).
This morning, for the first time in close to five decades, I read the first chapter of Ben Bova's Escape. It's a novel (really, by length, little more than a novella) about a juvenile delinquent, given an indeterminate sentence at an extremely high-tech reform school. Like the copy I read before, it was published by Scholastic, in case there was any doubt in anybody's mind that it's a youth novel.
In many ways, my vague memories of the book (along with a real-life youth ranch charity that I support) informed and inspired a fictional institution that gets passing mention in my own novel-in-progress, an institution I call "The Roger Williams Interfaith Ranch for Troubled Youth." (And yes, that Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, and father of church-state separation in North America.) But enough of my own writings.
So far as I can recall, this is the only work of Ben Bova's science fiction I've ever read. I do, however, recall reading some of his science books (although I can't recall any specific titles).