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Gregory Benford


(Gregory Albert Benford)
USA flag (b.1941)

aka Sterling Blake

Gregory Benford is a physicist, educator, and author. He received a BS from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 1971. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. He has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy, NASA, and the White House Council on Space Policy. He is the author of over twenty novels, including In the Ocean of the Night, The Heart of the Comet (with David Brin), Foundation's Fear, Bowl of Heaven (with Larry Niven), Timescape, and The Berlin Project. A two-time winner of the Nebula Award, Benford has also won the John W. Campbell Award, the British Science Fiction Award (BSFA), the Australian Ditmar Award, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature. In 1995 he received the Lord Foundation Award for contributions to science and the public comprehension of it. He has served as scientific consultant to the NHK Network and for Star Trek: The Next Generation.
 

Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
Jupiter Project
   1. Jupiter Project (1975)
   2. Against Infinity (1983)
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Galactic Center
   1. In the Ocean of Night (1977)
   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)
   The Galactic Center Companion (2014)
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Timescape
   1. Timescape (1980)
   2. Rewrite (2019)
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Martian Race
   1. The Martian Race (1999)
   2. The Sunborn (2005)
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Bowl of Heaven (with Larry Niven)
   1. Bowl of Heaven (2012)
   2. Shipstar (2014)
   3. Glorious (2020)
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Novels
   The Stars in Shroud (1970)
     aka Deeper Than the Darkness
   If the Stars Are Gods (1977) (with Gordon Eklund)
   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)
   Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) (with Arthur C Clarke)
   Chiller (1993) (as by Sterling Blake)
   A Darker Geometry (1996) (with Mark O Martin)
   Cosm (1998)
   Eater (2000)
   Beyond Infinity (2004)
   The Berlin Project (2017)
   Shadows of Eternity (2021)
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Collections
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Anthologies edited
   Hitler Victorious (1986) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Nuclear War (1988) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Alternate Empires (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Alternate Heroes (1989)
   Alternate Wars (1991)
   Alternate Americas (1992) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Far Futures (1995)
   The New Hugo Winners Volume IV (1997) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Microcosms (2004)
   The Best of Gregory Benford (2015) (with David G Hartwell)
   Science Fiction and the Dismal Science (2019) (with Jonathan Alexander, Howard V Hendrix and Gary Westfahl)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Iceborn (1989) (with Paul A Carter)
   The Final Now (2011)
   Grace Immaculate (2011)
   Down The River Road (2012)
   Backscatter (2013)
   Mammoth Dawn (2015) (with Kevin J Anderson)
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Non fiction
   Habitats in Space (1998)
   Deep Time (1999)
   Skylife (2000) (with George Zebrowski)
   Beyond Human (2003) (with Elisabeth Malartre)
   Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy (2018) (with Howard V Hendrix, Joseph D Miller and Gary Westfahl)
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Omnibus editions
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Series contributed to
War Years
   3. The Jupiter War (1991) (with Bill Fawcett)
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Man-Kzin
   6. Man-Kzin Wars VI (1994) (with Larry Niven)
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Anthologies containing stories by Gregory Benford
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 180 (1966)
Universe 1 (1971)
Again Dangerous Visions Book 2 (1973)
Universe 4 (1974)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 (1975)
Nebula Award Stories 10 (1975)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 (1976)
Universe 6 (1976)
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978)
Universe 8 (1978)
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year 1978 (1979)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 (1979)
Universe 9 (1979)
The Best of New Dimensions (1979)
New Dimensions 9 (1979)
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year 1979 (1980)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 (1980)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 (1982)
The Road to Science Fiction 4 (1982)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 (1983)
Universe 14 (1984)
Random Access Messages of the Computer Age (1984)
Afterlives (1986)
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 (1986)
Terrorists of Tomorrow (1986)
Nebula Awards 22 (1987)
Full Spectrum (1988)
Nebula Awards 23 (1989)
Full Spectrum 3 (1991)
Amazing Stories (1991)
Future Earths : Under African Skies (1993)
The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction (1993)
Isaac Asimov's War (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
Nebula Awards 28 (1994)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
Man-Kzin Wars VI (1994)
Weird Tales from Shakespeare (1994)
New Legends (1995)
The Way It Wasn't (1996)
Year's Best SF (1996)
War of the Worlds (1996)
Future Net (1996)
Visions of Wonder (1996)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997)
Year's Best SF 2 (1997)
Free Space (1997)
Dragons (1997)
The Science Fiction Century (1997)
The UFO Files (1998)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Fifteenth Annual Collection (1998)
Year's Best SF 3 (1998)
Future on Ice (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction 11th Annual Collection (1998)
More Amazing Stories (1998)
Far Horizons (1999)
Year's Best SF 4 (1999)
Explorers (2000)
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Short stories
Stand-In (1965)
Flattop (1966)
Deeper Than the Darkness [short story] (1969)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula Awards (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 [short story] (1974) (with Gordon Eklund)Nebula Awards
Doing Lennon (1975)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula Awards (nominee)
White Creatures (1975)Nebula Awards (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 [short story] (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 Awards (nominee)
Relativistic Effects (1982)
Me/Days (1983)
The Touch (1983)
Time's Rub [short story] (1984)
Immortal Night (1985)
Of Space-Time and the River (1985)
As Big as the Ritz (1986)
Freezeframe (1986)
Newton Sleep (1986)Nebula Awards (nominee)
Proselytes (1988)
We Could Do Worse (1988)
Leviathan (1989)
Matter's End [short story] (1989)Nebula Awards (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) (as by Sterling Blake)
High Abyss (1995)
Soon Comes Night (1995)Nebula Awards (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 [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1970) : Deeper Than the Darkness [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Novellette winner (1975) : If the Stars Are Gods [short story]
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1976) : Doing Lennon
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1976) : Doing Lennon
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1976) : White Creatures
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1978) : A Snark in the Night
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1978) : In the Ocean of Night
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1981) : Timescape
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1981) : Timescape
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1982) : Swarmer, Skimmer
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1984) : Against Infinity
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1987) : Newton Sleep
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1989) : Great Sky River
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1993) : Matter's End [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1996) : Soon Comes Night
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1997) : Immersion
Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (2000) : The Martian Race


Gregory Benford recommends
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The Oppenheimer Alternative (2020)
Robert J Sawyer
"I knew many of these physicists, and Sawyer nails them accurately."
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Freedom's Last Gasp (2020)
(Exodus , book 2)
M A Rothman
"Written by one who really knows the science..."
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A Star Wheeled Sky (2018)
Brad R Torgersen
"Solid hard SF...Much to enjoy."
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The Million (2018)
Karl Schroeder
"Karl Schroeder is one of our best hard SF writers."
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Second Creation (2016)
(Selected Stories, book 1)
Gordon Eklund
"I urge you to just amble through the rich record Gordon has laid down, collected here for the first time."
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Maelstrom (2015)
Kevin Ikenberry
"Reading this was a pleasure."

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