Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 352 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Ben Bova.

He's a six-time winner of the Hugo Award,

a former editor of Analog magazine,

and a former fiction editor of Omni magazine,

and past president of both the National Space

Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America.

He's also the author of more than 130 works of science facts and fiction.

And we'll be speaking with him today about his most recent short story collection

New Frontiers.

And now here's an interview with Ben Bova.

All right, so we're here with Ben Bova.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you. OK, so the first story in New Frontiers is about building a

golf course on the moon. So how did you come up with that idea? I married a woman who

plays golf. I don't, but she got me a little bit interested in the game and I was wondering what it would be like to try to play golf on the surface of the moon.

And that's how the story generated.

And so what would it be like to play golf

on the surface of the moon?

Well, in the first place, you'd be in a space suit because the surface of the moon is

airless and the second thing that you would feel is that the gravity is only one sixth that of Earth,

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