I have already finished Jupiter and Venues and I am now on my third book "Return to Moon Base". Lately I haven't been doing a lot of reading so I have only advanced about 30 pages since my last update. My goal is to continue to read "Return to Moon Base" for at least 30 minutes every night, or finish the book by ski week, which ever comes first. During ski week I will begin on the biography.

Since Ben Bova is a contemporary writer there are not many books that are a dedicated biography just about him. However, I did find a book, "The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction", edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn, with a 134 page entry just on Ben Bova. I also found "Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation" by Veronica Hollinger, with a 22 page article. Finally there is "Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction: Age of Maturity, 1970-2000", by Darren Harris-Fain, with a short 14 page chapter on Ben Bova.

I will ramp up on the reading during sky week and finish at least two-thirds of the biography. This will give me enough time to finish all the reading by the March 10th deadline.