Gregory Benford

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Awards: Nebula, British Science Fiction Association, John W. Campbell Memorial, Australian Ditmar

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Across the Sea of Suns

1984

"Technology has created a new age of enlightenment for humanity. As earth falls prey to attack, from the far reaches of space comes an alien message of astounding importance, revealing great wonders and terrifying danger."

Book two of the Galactic Center saga.

Against Infinity

1983 Amazing, in two parts.

Artifact

1985

Cosm

January 1998, Avon Eos Hardcover ISBN:0-38-97435-5. Cover by Raquel Jaramillo.

Deeper Than the Darkness

Far Futures

Dec. 1995, Tor hardcover.

Find the Changeling

With W. Rotsler.

Foundation's Fear

In Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.

Furious Gulf

1994

August 1995 paperback.Bantam Spectra.

The last humans from the planet Snowglade have taken refuge aboard the spaceship Argo, fleeing the genocidal mechs. Captain Killeen is convinced their one hope for survival lies at the True Center of the galaxy, but his crew are growing restless. Will his desperate gamble save mankind, or will it plunge the ship and its inhabitants into a cosmic pit of all-consuming fire?

Book five of the Galactic Center saga.

Great Sky River

1987

"The story of the last surviving humans, their struggle to survive against a mechanical alien civilization, and the unexpected fate that awaits them."

Book three of the Galactic Center saga.

Heart of the Comet

With David Brin

"Heart of the Comet chronicles the daring mission to the heart of Halley's Comet by a team of brilliant -and very human - scientists."

If the Stars Are Gods

With Gordon Eklund

"Scientist Bradley Reynolds must decode a mysterious signal hinting at intelligent life amid the gasses of Jupiter, and must ultimately make a challenging journey to find his answers."

In the Ocean of Night

1977

"From far beyond the shores of space, a mystery emerges as vast as the limitless sea of stars. This is one man's encounter with that mystery."

Book one of the Galatctic Center saga.

Jupiter Project

Sept-Oct 1972 Amazing

Matter's End

Short story collection

Sailing Bright Eternity

August 1995. Gollanz ISBN:0-575-060997-2, hardcover. Cover by Bob Eggleton

September 1995. Batnam Spectra ISBN:0-553-08655-3, hardcover. Cover by Pamela Lee.

Book six of the Galactic Center saga.

Shiva Descending

The Stars in Shroud

Tides of Light

1989

"Killeen and his band gain an unexpected ally in their battle for survival, and make an unexpected contribution to the new order of life developing at the galactic center."

Book four of the Galactic Center saga.

Timescape

Nebula, Campbell, Ditmar and BSFA Award winner

1980

What Might Have Been Vol. I: Alternate Empires

With Martin H. Greenberg

August 1989, A Bantam Spectra Book ISBN:0-553-27845-2

"In this stellar collection, twelve of science fiction's most imaginative minds have altered the past to reveal a present of astonishing and startling possibilities...a rare glimpse of what might have been."

Featuring: Anderson, Benford, Effinger, Karen Joy Fowler, Hogan, Barry Malzeberg, James Morrow, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley Robinson, Silverberg and Harry Turtledove.

Review/Summary

What Might Have Been Vol. II: Alternate Heroes

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"The Dark Backward"

Feb 1993 Amazing

"Dark Sanctuary"

1979, Omni. Fictionwise ebook

"Doing Lennon"

Hugo Nominee, Nebula Nominee

1975, Analog

"A History of the Great Tachyon Flap"

Jan 1973 Amazing.

A "The Science in SF" article. with David Book

"Immersion"

(c) 1995 by Abbenford Associates

March 1996, Science Fiction Age

1997 in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois.

"Nobody Lives on Burton Street"

May 1970 Amazing

"Touches"

Dec 1991 Amazing

"We Could Do Worse"

Fictionwise ebook

1988, What Might Have Been? Vol I: Alternate Empires.

Copyright 1988 by Abbenford Associates

"The Worm in the Well"

November 1995, Analog