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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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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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Anthologies edited
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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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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
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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Anthologies containing stories by Gregory Benford
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Life Beyond Us (2023)
An Original Anthology of SF Stories and Science Essays
edited by
Susan Forest, Lucas K Law and Julie Novakova
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

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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


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