Gregory Benford
Author of Timescape
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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Series
Works by Gregory Benford
What Might Have Been, Volumes 1 & 2: Alternate Empires, Alternate Heroes (1989) — Editor — 184 copies
The Wonderful Future That Never Was: Flying Cars, Mail Delivery by Parachute, and Other Predictions from the Past… (2010) 176 copies
What Might Have Been, Volumes 3 & 4 : Alternate Wars, Alternate Americas (1992) — Editor — 77 copies
Popular Mechanics The Amazing Weapons That Never Were: Robots, Flying Tanks & Other Machines of War (2012) 31 copies
A Hunger for the Infinite [short story] 25 copies
The Second Foundation Trilogy: Foundation's Fear, Foundation and Chaos, Foundation's Triumph (2004) 18 copies
Sucker Bait/Un-Man/to the Storming Gulf (Bart Science Fiction Tirplet, No 1) (1988) — Author — 18 copies
Bow Shock 9 copies
Matter's End [short fiction] 8 copies
A Worm in the Well {novelette} 7 copies
Zoomers {short story} 7 copies
We Could Do Worse 7 copies
Freezeframe 6 copies
Down the River Road 6 copies
Dark Sanctuary 5 copies
Alphas [short fiction] 5 copies
The Voice {short story} 5 copies
What Might Have Been, Volumes I-IV 4 copies
A Desperate Calculus 4 copies
Swarmer, Skimmer [novella] 4 copies
Dark Heaven 4 copies
Brink 4 copies
The Man Who Wasn't There 4 copies
High Abyss 3 copies
Terrestri alla prova 3 copies
Slow Symphonies Of Mass And Time 3 copies
And The Sea Like Mirrors 3 copies
A Cold Dry Cradle [short fiction] 3 copies
Proselytes [short fiction] 3 copies
What Might Have Been 3 copies
On the Brane 3 copies
The Clear Blue Seas of Luna 3 copies
Centigrade 233 (short story) 3 copies
Reasons not to Publish [short story] 3 copies
The First Commandment 3 copies
Shakers of the Earth 3 copies
The Fourth Dimension 3 copies
Doing Alien 3 copies
West Wind Falling 3 copies
A snark in the night (novella) 2 copies
Across the Sea of Suns, Part 2 2 copies
The Hydrogen Wall 2 copies
Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy: Outstanding Essays from the J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences (2018) 2 copies
Inima Cometei 2 copies
Kollapse {short story} 2 copies
How It All Went [short story] 2 copies
Caveat Time Traveller 2 copies
Threads of Time [novella] 2 copies
Slices 2 copies
Seti Library: Mars Mat 2 copies
Sending Meaning Across Epochs 2 copies
Penumbra [short story] 2 copies
As Big as the Ritz {short story} 2 copies
Seti Library: Black Smoker 2 copies
Life at Galactic Center 1 copy
Humanity as Cancer 1 copy
Mammoth Dawn 1 copy
The Long Future 1 copy
Is It Smart to Be Smart 1 copy
Essays and Short Stories 1 copy
The Pain Gun 1 copy
Blood's a Rover 1 copy
En El Ocano De La Noche 1 copy
光の潮流〈上〉 (ハヤカワ文庫SF) 1 copy
Exposed 1 copy
Across the Sea of Suns & Timescape & Jupiter Project & foundation's Fear & Cosm ( Set of 5 Books ) 1 copy
I Could've Done Better 1 copy
Paradise Afternoon 1 copy
Early Bird 1 copy
Beyond Pluto 1 copy
What Did You Do Last Year? — Editor — 1 copy
For the Storming Gulf 1 copy
Natură moartă cu timp 1 copy
Vremenski pejzaž 1 copy
Biotech and Nanodreams 1 copy
Antartica and Mars 1 copy
Seti Library: Orbitfall 1 copy
Touches (short story) 1 copy
Leviathan (short story) 1 copy
Warstory 1 copy
Knowing Her (short story) 1 copy
Shadows of the Lost 1 copy
Twenty-Two Centimeters 1 copy
The Semisent [short story] 1 copy
We Could Do More 1 copy
The Sigma Structure Symphony 1 copy
Goldilocks Problem 1 copy
Pebble Among the Stars 1 copy
Shall We Take A Little Walk? 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
Side Effect (short story) 1 copy
Stand-In (short story) 1 copy
The Fire this Time 1 copy
Leaving Night 1 copy
The Far Future 1 copy
Teeth of Time 1 copy
Solitude 1 copy
What Might Have Happened 1 copy
Station Spaces 1 copy
Vortex {short story} 1 copy
Time Guide (short story) 1 copy
The Man Who Sold the Stars 1 copy
On the Edge (short story) 1 copy
Bleak Velocities {poem} 1 copy
A Life with a Semisent 1 copy
Soon Comes Night 1 copy
Newton Sleep [novella] 1 copy
Sleepstory (Novelette) 1 copy
Cadenza (short story) 1 copy
The Bigger One (short story) 1 copy
Immortal Night (short story) 1 copy
Associated Works
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society (2010) — Contributor — 1,023 copies
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Contributor — 632 copies
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Contributor — 315 copies
The Way It Wasn't : Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History (1996) — Contributor — 151 copies
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Four: Nebula Winners 1970-1974 (1986) — Contributor — 124 copies
Gateways: A Feast of Great New Science Fiction Honoring Grand Master Frederik Pohl (2010) — Contributor — 95 copies
Nebula Awards 31: SFWA's Choices For The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) (No… (1997) — Contributor — 91 copies
Nebula Awards 28: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (1994) — Contributor — 63 copies
Nebula Awards 29: SFWA's Choices For The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) (1995) — Contributor — 55 copies
Nebula Awards 22: Sfwa's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1986 (Nebula Awards Showcase (Paperback)) (1988) — Contributor — 49 copies
Fourth Planet from the Sun: Tales of Mars from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (2005) — Contributor — 43 copies
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contributor — 36 copies
Life Beyond Us: An Original Anthology of SF Stories and Science Essays (European Astrobiology Institute Presents) (2023) — Contributor — 26 copies
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCVIII, No. 6 (June 1978) (1978) — Contributor — 26 copies
Spaceships and Spells: A Collection of New Fantasy and Science-fiction Stories (1987) — Contributor — 25 copies
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCV, No. 9 (September 1975) (1975) — Contributor — 22 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1995, Vol. 88, No. 6 (1995) — Science columnist — 20 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 2000, Vol. 99, No. 3 (2000) — Contributor — 17 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1995, Vol. 88, No. 5 (1995) — Contributor — 15 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 13, No. 4 [April 1989] (1989) — Contributor — 13 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1992, Vol. 82, No. 4 (1992) — Columnist — 13 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1998, Vol. 95, No. 2 (1998) — Contributor — 12 copies
Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Vol. CXXII, No. 7 & 8 (July/August 2002) (2002) — Contributor — 12 copies
Alien Worlds : three novellas of science fiction by award winning authors (1976) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 53. Die Trägheit des Auges. (1979) — Contributor, some editions — 10 copies
Extreme Planets: A Science Fiction Anthology of Alien Worlds (Chaosium fiction) (2014) — Contributor — 10 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 2 [February 1982] (1982) — Contributor — 10 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1989, Vol. 77, No. 4 (1989) — Author — 10 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 15, No. 14 [December 1991] (1991) — Contributor — 10 copies
Strangest of All — Contributor — 10 copies
Worlds of If Science Fiction 153, March/April 1971 (Vol. 20, No. 10) (1971) — Contributor — 9 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 15, No. 11 [October 1991] (1991) — Contributor — 7 copies
Science Fiction — Contributor — 6 copies
Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1991. 8 Romane und Erzählungen prominenter SF- Autoren. (1993) — Contributor — 6 copies
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Common Knowledge
- 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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- Works
- 238
- Also by
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- Members
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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- Languages
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- Favorited
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