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Gregory Benford

(Gregory Albert Benford)

(1941 - )
aka
Sterling Blake

About Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for contributions to sciences. His research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics. His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. Dr. Benford makes his home in Laguna Beach, California.

Series

Jupiter Project
1. Jupiter Project (1975)
2. Against Infinity (1983)

Galactic Center
1. In the Ocean of Night (1976)
2. Across the Sea of Suns (1984)
3. Great Sky River (1987)
4. Tides of Light (1989)
5. Furious Gulf (1994)
6. Sailing Bright Eternity (1995)

Novels

Deeper Than the Darkness (1970)
aka The Stars in Shroud
If the Stars Are Gods (1977) (with Gordon Eklund)
Timescape (1980)
Find the Changeling (1980) (with Gordon Eklund)
Shiva Descending (1980) (with William Rotsler)
Time's Rub (1984)
Artifact (1985)
The Heart of the Comet (1986) (with David Brin)
Under the Wheel (1987)
Iceborn (1989) (with Paul A Carter)
Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) (with Arthur C Clarke)
Chiller (1993) (writing as Sterling Blake)
A Darker Geometry (1996) (with Mark O Martin)
Cosm (1998)
The Martian Race (1999)
Eater (2000)
Beyond Infinity (2003)
The Sunborn (2005)

Collections

In Alien Flesh (1986)
Matter's End (1990)
Worlds Vast and Various (1999)
Immersion, and Other Short Novels (2002)

Series contributed to

Man-Kzin (with Larry Niven)
6. Man-Kzin Wars VI (1994)

Second Foundation
1. Foundation's Fear (1997)

Nebula Awards Showcase
1. Nebula Awards Showcase 2000: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy Chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (2000)

Anthologies edited

Non fiction

Habitats in Space (1998)
Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia (1999)
Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science (2000) (with George Zebrowski)
Beyond Human: The New World of Cyborgs and Androids (2001) (with Elisabeth Malartre)

Anthologies containing stories by Gregory Benford

Short stories

	Stand-In (1965)
	Flattop (1966)
	Deeper Than the Darkness (1969)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	The Movement (1970)
	Nobody Lives on Burton Street (1970)
	West Wind, Falling (1971) (with Gordon Eklund)
	And the Sea Like Mirrors (1972)
	If the Stars Are Gods (1974) (with Gordon Eklund)		Nebula
	Doing Lennon (1975)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	White Creatures (1975)		Nebula (nominee)
	How It All Went (1976)
	What Did You Do Last Year? (1976) (with Gordon Eklund)
	Knowing Her (1977)
	A Snark in the Night (1977)		Hugo (nominee)
	A Hiss of Dragon (1978) (with Marc Laidlaw)
	In Alien Flesh (1978)
	Nooncoming (1978)
	Calibrations and Exercises (1979)
	Dark Sanctuary (1979)
	Redeemer (1979)
	Time Guide (1979)
	Time Shards (1979)
	Cadenza (1981)
	Exposures (1981)
	Slices (1981)
	Swarmer, Skimmer (1981)		Nebula (nominee)
	Relativistic Effects (1982)
	Me/Days (1983)
	The Touch (1983)
	Time's Rub (1984)
	Immortal Night (1985)
	Of Space-Time and the River (1985)
	As Big as the Ritz (1986)
	Freezeframe (1986)
	Newton Sleep (1986)		Nebula (nominee)
	Proselytes (1988)
	We Could Do Worse (1988)
	Leviathan (1989)
	Matter's End (1989)		Nebula (nominee)
	Mozart on Morphine (1989)
	Warstory (1990)
	Centigrade 233 (1991)
	Touches (1991)
	Shakers of the Earth (1992)
	The Dark Backward (1993)
	The Bigger One (1994)
	Not of an Age (1994)
	Side Effect (1994)
	Sleepstory (1994)
	The Trojan Cat (1994) (with Mark O Martin)
	A Desperate Calculus (1995) (writing as Sterling Blake)
	High Abyss (1995)
	Soon Comes Night (1995)		Nebula (nominee)
	A Tapestry of Thought (1995)
	A Worm in the Well (1995)
	Immersion (1996)		Hugo (nominee)
	Paris Conquers All (1996) (with David Brin)
	Zoomers (1996)
	A Cold, Dry Cradle (1997) (with Elisabeth Malartre)
	Early Bird (1997)
	The Voice (1997)
	A Dance to Strange Musics (1998)
	Ordinary Aliens (1998)

Awards

	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1970) : Deeper Than the Darkness
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1970) : Deeper Than the Darkness
	Nebula Best Novellette winner (1975) : If the Stars Are Gods
	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1976) : White Creatures
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1976) : Doing Lennon
	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1976) : Doing Lennon
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1978) : A Snark in the Night
	Nebula Best Novel winner (1978) : In the Ocean of Night
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1981) : Timescape
	Nebula Best Novel winner (1981) : Timescape
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1982) : Swarmer, Skimmer
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1984) : Against Infinity
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1987) : Newton Sleep
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1989) : Great Sky River
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1993) : Matter's End
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1996) : Soon Comes Night
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1997) : Immersion
	Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (2000) : The Martian Race

Links to other websites

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Gregory Benford recommends

The Void Captain's Tale (1982) Norman Spinrad "Spinrad's best novel. A tour de force."	Them Bones (1984) Howard Waldrop "A tense, fast-paced time travel yarn, packed with gritty detail. Pleasurable and fine."	Blood Music (1985) Greg Bear "A work of thoroughgoing excellence. It's a delight to read science fiction by someone who knows what he's talking about. A damned good read!"
Venus of Dreams (1986) (Venus (sargent), book 1) Pamela Sargent "One of the peaks of recent science fiction."	The Ragged Astronauts (1986) (Land and Overland, book 1) Bob Shaw "Bob Shaw is deft, original, and gripping."	Neptune Crossing (1994) (Chaos Chronicles, book 1) Jeffrey A Carver "Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right—his science and his people are equally convincing. Neptune Crossing combines his strengths, from a chilling look at alien machine intelligence to cutting-edge chaos theory, to the pangs of finite humans in the face of the infinite."
Kings of the High Frontier (1996) Victor Koman "An exciting, bracing look at a future some of us hope for, yet many fear. Hard-edged, tough-minded SF indeed!"	Starplex (1996) Robert J Sawyer "For big-time interstellar adventure, look no further."	Standard Candles (1996) Jack McDevitt "McDevitt is the real thing: a writer with depth, integrating scientific issueswith human concerns on a vast stage, lit by vivid colors."
Expansion (1997) (Night's Dawn : Reality Dysfunction, book 2) Peter F Hamilton "Dazzling invention!"	The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil (1998) Avram Davidson and Grania Davis "The Boss in the Wall is a last powerful and major work by a major and powerful author."	Wheelers (2000) Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart "Well imagined and inventive, by two writers who harbour wild imaginations beneath their sober academic roles. I enjoyed every moment."
First Landing (2001) Robert Zubrin "A Ken Follett-like Mars novel ... with the ring of authority."	Picoverse (2002) Robert A Metzger "A hard SF read at high velocity."	Hopscotch (2002) Kevin J Anderson "Hopscotch is cracking good�swift, sure storytelling, with more plot twists than a snake and twice the bite."
What Does a Martian Look Like?: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life (2002) Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart "Ever wonder about what aliens could be like? The world authority is Jack Cohen, a professional biologist who has thought long and hard about the vast realm of possibilities. This is an engaging, swiftly moving study of alien biology, a subject with bounds and constraints these authors plumb with verve and intelligence."

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