Gregory Benford (born 30 January 1941 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist. As a science fiction author, Benford is perhaps best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, beginning with In the Ocean of Night. This series postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient mechanical life.
Easton Press Gregory Benford books
Timescape - Masterpieces of Science Fiction - 1989
Furious Gulf - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 1994
Matter's End - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 1994
Sailing Bright Eternity - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 1995
Foundation's Fear - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 1997
Cosm - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 1998
The Martian Race - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 1999
Beyond Infinity - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 2004
Sunborn - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 2005
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Gregory Benford biography
Beford received a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1963 from University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, followed by a Master of Science from the University of California, San Diego in 1965, and a doctorate there in 1967. That same year he married Joan Abbe
Benford has an identical twin brother, Jim Benford, with whom he has collaborated on science fiction stories. Both got their start in SF fandom, with Gregory co-editor of the fanzine Void. His first professional sale was the story "Stand-In" in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (June 1965). In 1969, he began writing a regular science column for Amazing Stories.
Gregory Benford quotes
"We have a name for people who create universes - they're called gods."
"Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information."
"The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one."
"Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change."
"If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody."
"The movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future."
Gregory Benford books
Galactic Center Saga
In the Ocean of Night (1976)
Across the Sea of Suns (1984)
Great Sky River (1987)
Tides of Light (1989)
Furious Gulf (1994)
Sailing Bright Eternity (1995)
A Hunger for the Infinite (novella - 1999)
Jupiter Projects
Jupiter Project (1975)
Against Infinity (1983)
Other series contributed to Man-Kzin Wars (with Larry Niven)
Man-Kzin Wars VI (1994)
A Darker Geometry: A Man-Kzin Novel (1996)
Second Foundation
Foundation's Fear (1997)
Non-series novels
Deeper Than the Darkness (a.k.a. The Stars in Shroud) (1970)
Shiva Descending (1980)
Find the Changeling (1980)
Timescape (1980)
Time's Rub (1984)
Artifact (1985)
Heart of the Comet (1986)
Under the Wheel (Alien Stars, volume 3) (1987)
Iceborn (1989)
Beyond the Fall of Night (1990)
Chiller (1993)
Cosm (1998)
The Martian Race (1999)
Eater (2000)
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Human Being (2003)
The Sunborn (2005)
Anthologies edited
Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II (1986), with Martin H. Greenberg
Nuclear War (1988), with Martin H Greenberg
Far Futures (1995)
The New Hugo Winners Volume IV (1997), with Martin H. Greenberg
Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 (2000)
Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science (April 2000, with George Zebrowski)
Microcosms (2004)
Merlin (July 2004, with Martin H. Greenberg)
Sentinels: In Honor of Arthur C. Clarke (August 2010, with George Zebrowski)
Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon (August 2013, with James Benford)
Alternate histories
Alternate Empires (1989) (with Martin H. Greenberg)
Alternate Heroes (1989)
Alternate Wars (1991)
Alternate Americas (1992) (with Martin H. Greenberg)
Non-fiction
Habitats in Space (1998)
Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia (1999)
Skylife: Visions of Our Homes in Space (2000, with George Zebrowsk)
Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science (2000, with George Zebrowski)
Beyond Human: The New World of Cyborgs and Androids (2001)
Short-story collections
In Alien Flesh (1986)
Matter's End (1990)
Amazing Stories No 7 (1992, with J. R. Dunn, James Alan Gardner and Kim Mohan
Worlds Vast and various' (1999)
Immersion and other Short Novels (2002)
Merlin (2004)
Short stories
Stand-In (1965)
Representative From Earth (1966)
Flattop (1966)
Deeper Than the Darkness (1969)
Sons of Man (1969)
Nobody Lives on Burton Street (1970)
The Prince of New York (1970)
3:02 p.m., Oxford (1970)
The Movement (October 1970)
Inalienable Rite (1970)
But the Secret Sits (1971)
Star Crossing, with Donald Franson (1971)
Battleground", with Jim Benford (1971)
West Wind, Falling, with Gordon Eklund (1971)
And the Sea Like Mirrors (1972)
In the Ocean of Night (1972)
Jupiter Project (September 1972)
Icarus Descending (April 1973)
Man in a Vice (February 1974)
Nobody Lives Around Here (February 1974))
If the Stars Are Gods", with Gordon Eklund (1974)
Threads of Time (1974)
Doing Lennon (1975)
Beyond Grayworld (1975)
Cambridge, 1:58 A.M (1975)
John of the Apocalypse (1975)
White Creatures (1975)
How It All Went (1976)
The Anvil of Jove, with Gordon Eklund (1976)
Marauder! (1976)
Seascape (aka Pebble Among the Stars) (1976)
What Did You Do Last Year?, with Gordon Eklund (1976)
Hellas is Florida, with Gordon Eklund (January 1977)
Homemaker (May 1977)
A Snark in the Night (1977)
Knowing Her (1977)
Starswarmer (1978)
In Alien Flesh (1978)
Old Woman By the Road (1978)
A Hiss of Dragon, with Marc Laidlaw (1978)
Nooncoming (1978)
Time Guide 1979)
Dark Sanctuary (1979)
Redeemer (1979)
Calibrations and Exercises (1979)
Time Shards (1979)
Titan Falling (1980)
Pick an Orifice (1980)
Slices (1981)
Exposures (1981)
Shall We Take a Little Walk? (1981)
Cadenza (1981)
Valhalla (April 1982)
Lazarus Rising (July 1982)
Relativistic Effects (1982)
Sandy Lust (1982)
Swarmer, Skimmer (1982)
The Touch (1983)
Me/Days (1984)
Time's Rub (1984)
To the Storming Gulf (1985)
Newton Sleep (January 1986)
Of Space-Time and the River (1986)
Freezeframe (1986)
As Big as the Ritz(1986)
Snatching the Bot (1986)
Effing the Ineffable (1987)
The Gods of the Gaps (1987)
What Are You Going to Be When You Grow Up? (1987)
Proselytes (1988)
All the Beer on Mars (1989)
Alphas (1989)
We Could Do Worse (1989)
Mozart on Morphine (1989)
Leviathan (1989)
Proserpina's Daughter with Paul A. Carter (1989)
The Rose and the Scalpel (1989)
Warstory (1990)
Latter-Day Matian Chronicles (1990)
The Eagle and the Cross (1990)
Manassas, Again (1991)
Centigrade 233 (1991)
Touches (1991)
Matter's End (1991)
Down the River Road (1992)
Rumbling Earth (1992)
World Vast, World Various (1992)
The Dark Backward (1993)
Doing Alien (March 1994)
The Bigger One (May 1994)
Soon Comes the Night (1994)
Not of an Age (1994)
Strong Instinct with Mark O. Martin (1994)
The Trojan Cat with Mark O. Martin (1994)
Deep Eyes (1995)
Kollapse (1995)
A Worm in the Well (1995)
A Tapestry of Thought (1995)
A Desperate Calculus as Sterling Blake (1995)
High Abyss (1995)
Immersion (1996)
Paris Conquers All with David Brin (1996)
Afterword: Retrospective with David Brin (1996)
Zoomers (1996)
The Voice (1997)
Galaxia (1997)
A Cold Dry Cradle with Elisabeth Malartrez (1997)
Early Bird (1997)
A Dance to Strange Musics (1998)
Ordinary Aliens (1998)
Three Gods (2001)
Menage a Trois (2001)
Around the Curve of a Cosmos (2001)
Brink (2001)
The Clear Blue Seas of Luna (2002)
The Hydrogen Wall (2003)
Station Spaces (2004)
The First Commandment (2004)
Blood's a Rover (2004)
On the Brane (2004)
Twenty-Two Centimetres (2004)
Beyond Pluto (2005)
A Life with a Semisent (2005)
The Pain Gun (2005)
Iraqi Heat (A2005)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2005)
Applied Mathematical Theology (2006)
Isaac from the Outside (poem) (2006)
Bow Shock (2006)
Robowar (2006)
The Gorgon's Head (with Elisabeth Malartre) (2006)
I Could've Done Better (with David Brin) (2007)
Dark Heaven (2007)
The Worm Turns (2007)
How to Write a Scientific Paper (2007)
Reasons Not to Publish (2007)
The Champagne Award (2008)
SETI for Profit (2008)
At the Singularity (poem) (2008)
Orbitfall (2008)
Ascending Everest (2009)
Caveat Time Traveller (2009)
Black Smoker (2009)
The Mars Mat (2009)
Lathe of Evolution (2009)
Paradise Afternoon (2009)
The Grace of Tragedy (2010)
Tiny Elephants (2010)
The Final Now (2010)
Penumbra (June 10, 2010)
Shadows of the Lost (with Elisabeth Malartre) (2010)
Gravity's Whispers (2010)
Mercies (2010)
Eagle (February 2011)
Grace Immaculate (2011)
The Sigma Structure Symphony (2012)
Comes the Evolution (2012)
Ol' Gator (2012)
Backscatter (2013)
Think Big (2013)
Coda: Atmosphaera Incognita (2013)
The Man Who Sold the Stars (2013)
Leaving Night (2013)
Bloodpride (2014)
Lady with Fox (2014)
Aspects (2015)
Vortex (2016)
Elderjoy (2016)
Anomalies
At the Double Solstice
A Hunger for the Infinite
Immortal Night
Mammoth Dawn with Kevin J. Anderson
Mandikini
Side Effect
Shakers of the Earth
Sleepstory
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