In novels like Mars, Moonbase, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn as well as Privateers, The Precipice, and The Rock Rats, Bova has told the story of the wars and rivalries, the outsize individuals, public crusades, and private passions that will drive us as we expand into the Solar System and make use of its vast resources. And throughout, Bova has shown our cosmic neighbourhood as we know it to be, based on the latest observations. The last two decades have been a golden age of near-Earth astronomy and observation, and Bova has made good use of it. During this time Bova has written short fiction about some of the same events and characters - Sam Gunn, Martin Humphries, Klaus Fuchs, Dan Randolph, the Asterold Wars. Now, in Tales Of The Grand Tour, those stores are collected in book form for the first time, a landmark of modern science fiction.