Gregory Benford

Author of Timescape

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About the Author

Gregory Benford, was born on January 30, 1941 in Mobile, Alabama. He is a physicist and science fiction writer who earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, in 1967. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a consultant for NASA. Benford's first novel "Deeper than the Darkness" show more (1970), which was revised as "The Stars in Shroud" (1978), gave him notice as a serious Science Fiction writer. His most popular work is "Timescape" (1980), which was the winner of the Nebula and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards; it presented a hard physics approach to limited time travel. "In the Ocean of Night" (1977), "Across the Sea of Suns" (1984), "Great Sky River" (1987), "Tides of Light" (1989) and "Furious Gulf" (1994) were all a part of the Galactic Cluster Series. He has also written the juvenile novel "Jupiter Project" (1975), "Against Infinity" (1983) and the thriller "Artifact" (1985). He has been nominated for 12 Nebula Awards (winning for "Timescape" and for the novelette, "If the Stars are Gods"). Benford, writing alternately with Bruce Sterling, produces science fact articles for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. They took over after the death of regular columnist Isaac Asimov. He has also co-edited theme anthologies with Martin H. Greenburg, which include "Hitler Victorious" (1986), "Nuclear War" (1988), "What Might Have Been, Volume 1: Alternate Empires" (1988), "Volume 2: Alternate Heroes" (1989) and "Volume 3: Alternate Wars." (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Timescape (1980) — Author — 2,150 copies

Foundation's Fear (1997) — Author — 1,718 copies

In the Ocean of Night (1977) 1,314 copies

Heart of the Comet (1986) 1,199 copies

Great Sky River (1987) 932 copies

Across the Sea of Suns (1984) 879 copies

Tides of Light (1989) 798 copies

Artifact (1985) 761 copies

Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) 653 copies

Cosm (1998) 651 copies

Eater (2000) 585 copies

The Martian Race (1999) 584 copies

Furious Gulf (1994) 577 copies

Sailing Bright Eternity (1995) 528 copies

Bowl of Heaven (2012) 426 copies

Against Infinity (1983) 412 copies

The Sunborn (2005) 343 copies

Beyond Infinity (2004) 323 copies

If the Stars are Gods (1977) 303 copies

The Stars in Shroud (1978) 292 copies

Shiva Descending (1979) 275 copies

Jupiter Project (1975) 265 copies

Shipstar (2014) 262 copies

In Alien Flesh (1986) — Author — 233 copies

Hitler Victorious (1986) 225 copies

Alternate Empires (What Might Have Been, Vol. 1) (1989) — Editor; Contributor — 209 copies

Matter's End (1995) 196 copies

Alternate Heroes (What Might Have Been, Vol. 2) (1989) — Editor — 189 copies

What Might Have Been, Volumes 1 & 2: Alternate Empires, Alternate Heroes (1989) — Editor — 186 copies

The Wonderful Future That Never Was: Flying Cars, Mail Delivery by Parachute, and Other Predictions from the Past… (2010) 177 copies

Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia (2000) 174 copies

A Darker Geometry: A Man-Kzin Novel (1996) 162 copies

The Berlin Project (2017) 160 copies

Far Futures (1995) — Editor — 132 copies

The New Hugo Winners, Volume IV (1997) — Editor — 114 copies

Alternate Wars (What Might Have Been, Vol. 3) (1991) — Editor — 111 copies

Find the Changeling (1980) 108 copies

Alternate Americas (What Might Have Been, Vol. 4) (1992) 98 copies

Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science (2000) — Editor; Contributor — 84 copies

Against the Fall of Night / Beyond the Fall of Night (1991) — Author — 84 copies

Chiller (1993) 79 copies

Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 (2000) — Editor — 79 copies

What Might Have Been, Volumes 3 & 4 : Alternate Wars, Alternate Americas (1992) — Editor — 77 copies

Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs (2001) 76 copies

Deeper Than the Darkness (1970) 74 copies

Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape (2019) 71 copies

The Saturn Game/Iceborn (1989) 71 copies

Grace Immaculate: A Tor.Com Original (2011) 69 copies

Worlds Vast and Various: Stories (2000) 65 copies

Shadows of Eternity (2021) 60 copies

Glorious (2020) 56 copies

Microcosms (2004) 43 copies

Nuclear War (1988) — Editor — 41 copies

Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon (2013) — Editor — 35 copies

The Best of Gregory Benford (2015) 27 copies

A Hunger for the Infinite [short story] 25 copies

Anomalies (2012) 19 copies

Sucker Bait/Un-Man/to the Storming Gulf (Bart Science Fiction Tirplet, No 1) (1988) — Author — 18 copies

The Second Foundation Trilogy: Foundation's Fear, Foundation and Chaos, Foundation's Triumph (2004) 18 copies

The Final Now (2010) 17 copies

Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar (2020) 17 copies

If the Stars Are Gods [short fiction] (1974) 15 copies

In the Ocean of Night, Part 2 (1978) 15 copies

Timescape, Part 1 (1982) 14 copies

Gregory Benford SF Gateway Omnibus: Artifact, Cosm, Eater (2014) 12 copies

Timescape, Part 2 (1980) 12 copies

Doing Lennon [short fiction] (1975) 12 copies

Sentinels In Honor of Arthur C. Clarke (2010) 10 copies

A Hiss of Dragon [short story] (1978) 10 copies

Backscatter (2013) 10 copies

Bow Shock 9 copies

Matter's End [short fiction] 8 copies

Exposures (1981) 8 copies

Of Space/Time and the River (1986) 7 copies

Zoomers {short story} 7 copies

Relativistic Effects (1982) 7 copies

We Could Do Worse 7 copies

Across the Sea of Suns, Part 1 (1985) 7 copies

A Worm in the Well {novelette} 7 copies

Immersion [short fiction] (2002) 7 copies

Down the River Road 6 copies

Time Shards (1979) 6 copies

Manassas, Again [short story] (1991) 6 copies

To the Storming Gulf (1985) 6 copies

Freezeframe 6 copies

Dark Sanctuary 5 copies

Immersion and Other Short Novels (2002) 5 copies

Mercies (2011) 5 copies

The Worm Turns (2007) 5 copies

The Voice {short story} 5 copies

Alphas [short fiction] 5 copies

A Dance to Strange Musics [short fiction] 5 copies

Around the Curve of a Cosmos [short story] 4 copies

Swarmer, Skimmer [novella] 4 copies

Nobody Lives On Burton Street [short story] 4 copies

White Creatures (1975) 4 copies

Brink 4 copies

What Might Have Been, Volumes I-IV 4 copies

Paris Conquers All (1996) 4 copies

The Mars Girl & As Big as the Ritz (ARC Doubles Book 1) (2016) 4 copies

A Desperate Calculus 4 copies

The Man Who Wasn't There 4 copies

Dark Heaven 4 copies

Doing Alien 3 copies

What Might Have Been 3 copies

Shakers of the Earth 3 copies

Proselytes [short fiction] 3 copies

The Fourth Dimension 3 copies

Centigrade 233 (short story) 3 copies

A Cold Dry Cradle [short fiction] 3 copies

On the Brane 3 copies

Terrestri alla prova 3 copies

The Clear Blue Seas of Luna 3 copies

West Wind Falling 3 copies

Reasons not to Publish [short story] 3 copies

The First Commandment 3 copies

High Abyss 3 copies

Science Fiction Theater (1999) 3 copies

Slow Symphonies Of Mass And Time 3 copies

World Vast, World Various {short story} 3 copies

And The Sea Like Mirrors 3 copies

In Alien Flesh [short story] (1978) 3 copies

Starswarmer (1978) 2 copies

Old Woman by the Road [short story] (1978) 2 copies

Redeemer (1979) 2 copies

Slices 2 copies

Across the Sea of Suns, Part 2 2 copies

Quantum Special (Quantum science fiction special) (1979) 2 copies

As Big as the Ritz {short story} 2 copies

Deeper than the Darkness [short story] 2 copies

How It All Went [short story] 2 copies

Time's Rub [short fiction] (1984) 2 copies

Kollapse {short story} 2 copies

Inima Cometei 2 copies

New Ball Games for the Future (2018) 2 copies

Caveat Time Traveller 2 copies

Threads of Time [novella] 2 copies

Me/Days (1984) 2 copies

Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy: Outstanding Essays from the J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences (2018) 2 copies

A snark in the night (novella) 2 copies

Sending Meaning Across Epochs 2 copies

The Hydrogen Wall 2 copies

Penumbra [short story] 2 copies

Seti Library: Mars Mat 2 copies

Nooncoming [short story] (1978) 2 copies

Seti Library: Black Smoker 2 copies

Star crossing [In: If, worlds of science fiction (March/April 1971)] 2 copies

At the Double Solstice (1988) 2 copies

Life at Galactic Center 1 copy

Humanity as Cancer 1 copy

Is It Smart to Be Smart 1 copy

Shall We Take A Little Walk? 1 copy

Autograph, S.F. Writer, Signed Collector Card (Mine) (3) 1 copy

Mammoth Dawn 1 copy

Ten Thousand Years of Solitude 1 copy

Shadows of Eternity {short story} 1 copy

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The Long Future 1 copy

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Tra dieci mesi la fine del mondo - prima parte (Shiva Descending) 1 copy

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2 1 copy

Tra dieci mesi la fine del mondo - seconda parte (Shiva descending) 1 copy

Seti Library: Ascending Everest 1 copy

大いなる天上の河〈下〉 (ハヤカワ文庫 SF (806)) (1989) 1 copy

Sailing Bright Eternity (Book 1 of 2) (1997) 1 copy

Sailing Bright Eternity (Book 2 of 2) (1997) 1 copy

En El Oc�ano De La Noche 1 copy

光の潮流〈上〉 (ハヤカワ文庫SF) 1 copy

Exposed 1 copy

Pebble Among the Stars 1 copy

Across the Sea of Suns & Timescape & Jupiter Project & foundation's Fear & Cosm ( Set of 5 Books ) 1 copy

Station Spaces 1 copy

I Could've Done Better 1 copy

Preko mora sunaca (Galaktičko središte, #2) 1 copy

A Life with a Semisent 1 copy

Early Bird 1 copy

What Did You Do Last Year? — Editor — 1 copy

Antartica and Mars 1 copy

For the Storming Gulf 1 copy

Natură moartă cu timp 1 copy

Fundação: O Medo Livro 1 (1998) 1 copy

Obiettivo Marte (Italian Edition) (2019) 1 copy

Vremenski pejzaž 1 copy

U okeanu noći (Galaktičko središte, #1) 1 copy

Redshift 13 (2012) 1 copy

Vortex {short story} 1 copy

The Fire this Time 1 copy

Inalienable Rite {short story} 1 copy

Stand-In (short story) 1 copy

Knowing Her (short story) 1 copy

Side Effect (short story) 1 copy

Touches (short story) 1 copy

Leviathan (short story) 1 copy

Calibrations and Exercises (short story) 1 copy

Mozart on Morphine (short story) 1 copy

Snatching the Bot [short story] (1977) 1 copy

The Rose and the Scapel {novella} 1 copy

All the Beer on Mars {short story} 1 copy

Shadows of the Lost 1 copy

Immortal Night (short story) 1 copy

Twenty-Two Centimeters 1 copy

How To Write A Scientific Paper 1 copy

The Semisent [short story] 1 copy

The Sigma Structure Symphony 1 copy

Soon Comes Night 1 copy

Goldilocks Problem 1 copy

Stars in Shroud-Can: Grassy Knoll 1 copy

Newton Sleep [novella] 1 copy

The Galactic Center Series - Books 1-6: In the Ocean of Night, Across the Sea of Suns, Great Sky River, Tides of Light,… (2005) 1 copy

Valhalla {short story} (1986) 1 copy

Time Guide (short story) 1 copy

The Bigger One (short story) 1 copy

The Far Future 1 copy

The Galactic Center Companion (2014) 1 copy

Teeth of Time 1 copy

Solitude 1 copy

What Might Have Happened 1 copy

Urania 890 - TRA DIECI MESI LA FINE DEL MONDO - Prima parte 1 copy

The Scarred Man {short story} 1 copy

In the Dark Backward {short story} 1 copy

Warstory 1 copy

Paradise Afternoon 1 copy

Leaving Night 1 copy

Blood's a Rover 1 copy

Beyond Pluto 1 copy

Cadenza (short story) 1 copy

The Pain Gun 1 copy

The Man Who Sold the Stars 1 copy

On the Edge (short story) 1 copy

We Could Do More 1 copy

Seti Library: Orbitfall 1 copy

Bleak Velocities {poem} 1 copy

Effing the Ineffable {short story} 1 copy

Beyond Grayworld [short story] (1975) 1 copy

Applied Mathematical Theology 1 copy

Sleepstory (Novelette) 1 copy

大いなる天上の河〈上〉 (ハヤカワ文庫SF) (1989) 1 copy

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Legal name: Benford, Gregory Albert
Other names: Blake, Sterling
Albert, Lincoln
Birthdate: 1941-01-30
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Mobile, Alabama, USA
Places of residence: California, USA
Education: University of California, San Diego (PhD|1967)
University of Oklahoma (BS|1963)
Occupations: physicist
university professor
novelist
screenwriter
Relationships: Benford, Jim (brother)
Organizations: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Awards and honors: Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1985)
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
Visiting Fellow (Cambridge University)
Lord Foundation Award (for contributions to science and the public comprehension of it)
United Nations Medal in Literature (1990)

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Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia by Gregory Benford

Communication with the distant future is not as easy as anyone would like. As history shows, messages of the past can become forgotten or get destroyed or even misinterpreted. This book does an extraordinarily good job at identifying a myriad of things that could go right and wrong when making and sending messages to future generations. The communication difficulties described have a lot do to with providing warnings and storing messages. Warnings have to do with how we deal with waste sites. The warnings could take many different shapes but all have grave consequences should the future generation not interpret them properly. Given enough time, everything can see an end, even the human race. Saving information about human beings in space brings into question how the message will be interpreted as future humans or other beings may not, or will not, share our cultural values which would make it hard to understand what was sent. It is also difficult to identify a technology that can allow future generations to read as older technology becomes obsolete and have difficulty finding ways to read it, or it could be that different beings cannot read or see the way humans can. Something that needs to be stored and kept for future generations is life itself. Collecting genetic samples and with having potential in the future to resurrect extinct species is something that needs to be considered for diversity. The planet itself is a message that the past has sent us, and that current humans are sending to the future. How we alter the present deeply affects the planet we leave behind. Benford did a wonderful job with explain vastly different strategies and potential mishaps of sending messages.… (more)

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Eugene_Kernes | 4 other reviews | Jun 4, 2024 |

Foundation's Fear (Second Foundation Trilogy… by Gregory Benford

I kept slogging through this book hoping and waiting for this work to redeem itself. Then it ended.

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JohnChic | 25 other reviews | May 29, 2024 |

Cosm by Gregory Benford

Good SF about a window to new universe found accidentally by physicists. Are able to view complete life span of universe in only a few weeks. Got a little heavy in the scientific jargon in places, but good characters and story line.

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derailer | 4 other reviews | Jan 25, 2024 |

Anomalies: a Collection of Short Fiction by Gregory Benford

Review just for the titular story, which I listened to here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BwMJfSFl4&list=PLof7Pw9lOerMkjKlAl3sY41nVz...

The physics of the universe goes squirrely for a little while and scientists have no idea what to make of it.

This was both fascinating and funny, genuinely making me chuckle. I believe this was my first Benford and I was given the impression of a sensibility that combined Ted Chiang with Douglas Adams, which is as about as complimentary I can be without mentioning Philip K. Dick or Greg Egan. There is something highly enjoyable about softcore fun hard sci-fi.

I will absolutely be tracking this collection down in the future!… (more)

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RatGrrrl | Dec 20, 2023 |

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