I have no finished all of my novels and have read some biographies of my author and interviews and listened to some audio interviews. What I have found out through my research is that Ben Bova tries to write novels with real science and real relationships. This is a different approach from many science fiction novels, that have more far out ideas. For example Ben Bova is in the process of writing a series that his fans have dubbed as the Grand Tour of the Solar System. His novels also focuses on scientific issues such as global warming, a hot issue even today. In his novel Venus first mission to the planet was to try to prove that if we didn't change our behavior that Earth would experience a run away green house effect. So I guess that my thesis could be something like, Ben Bova's novels are based around hard science with focas on relationships, religiou and scientific debates and big scientific issues. Ben Bova also believes that space is going to open up to human exploration faster than most people think. In an audio interview I listen to Ben Bova sighted Burt Rutan as being a pioneer of space tourism, which he belives will take off in the next few decades, and will help to fund man space missions. He sees the international space station being converted to a space hotel after NASA retires the station.