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Gregory Benford

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Gregory Benford

January 30, 1941

Gregory Benford (Gregory Albert Benford) is an astrophysicist and science fiction author who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine. Benford is best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, a series that postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient electromechanical life. Greg was born in Mobile, Alabama. He received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Oklahoma, followed by his Masters and then his Doctorate from the University of California, San Diego. Having published more than 200 scientific papers, his research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics. Greg is a two-time winner of the Nebula Award and has also won the John W. Campbell Award, the Australian Ditmar Award, the Lord Foundation Prize, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature. Source: Secular Policy Institute

Bibliography

Books

30 books

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Again, Dangerous Visions

1967

Harlan Ellison, John Heidenry, Ross Rocklynne, Ursula K. Le Guin, Andrew J. Offutt, Gene Wolfe, Ray Nelson, Ray Bradbury, Chad Oliver, Edward Bryant, Kate Wilhelm, James B. Hemesath, Joanna Russ, Kurt Vonnegut, T. L. Sherred, K. M. O'Donnell, H. H. Hollis, Bernard Wolfe, David Gerrold, Piers Anthony, Lee Hoffman, Gahan Wilson, Joan Bernott, Gregory Benford, Evelyn Lief, James Sallis, Josephine Saxton, Ken McCullough, David Kerr, Burt K. Filer, Richard Hill, Leonard Tushnet, Ben Bova, Edward Gorman, James Blish, A. Parra, Thomas M. Disch, Richard A. Lupoff, John Harrison, Robin Scott, Andrew Weiner, Terry Carr, James Tiptree, Jr., Dean Koontz, Piers Anthony, Ben Bova

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Timescape

1980

Gregory Benford, Pete Bradbury, Simon Prebble

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100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories

1978

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Larry Niven, Charles E. Fritch, Bill Pronzini, George R. R. Martin, Jerome Bixby, Ambrose Bierce, Edward D. Hoch, Alexei Panshin, Martin Gardner, Steven Utley, Gregory Benford, Richard Wilson, Robert Sheckley, Roger Zelazny, Damon Knight, Reginald Bretnor, Frederik Pohl, Laurence M. Janifer, James Blish, Joanna Russ, Ray Russell, Edward Wellen, Donald E. Westlake, Ben Bova, Barry N. Malzberg, Fred Saberhagen, Fritz Leiber, Karen Anderson, Bob Shaw, William F. Nolan, Henry Slesar, Dannie Plachta, Edward Rager, Hayford Peirce, Jeffrey S. Hudson, Walter S. Tevis, James Edward Sutherland, Joe L. Hensley, Duane Ackerson, Stephen Goldin, Robert Emmett Toomey Jr., Alfred Bester, Anthony Boucher, Nelson Slade Bond, F. M. Busby, Maggie Nadler, Grant Carrington, Keith Laumer, E. Michael Blake, James E. Gunn, Paul Dellinger, Lee Killough, Thomas F. Monteleone, Robert T. Kurosaka, James E. Thompson, Robert L. Fish, Bruce McAllister, Paul Bond, Mildred Downey Broxon, Alan Edward Nourse, David Bischoff, Ralph Milne Farley, Daniel A. Darlington, Walt Liebscher, K. W. MacAnn

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The Bradbury Chronicles

1991

William F. Nolan, Martin H. Greenberg, Ray Bradbury, Cameron Nolan, Edward Gorman, James Kisner, Charles L. Grant, Richard Matheson, Chad Oliver, William, Jr. Relling, Charles Beaumont, Norman Corwin, Roberta Lannes, Richard Christian Matheson, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Bruce Francis, Gregory Benford, John Maclay, J. N. Williamson, F. Paul Wilson, Robert Sheckley, Orson Scott Card

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Other Worlds Than These

2012

John Joseph Adams, Lev Grossman, Stephen Baxter, Paul McAuley, Seanan McGuire, Michael Swanwick, Gregory Benford, William Alexander, Pat Cadigan, Joyce Carol Oates, John R. Fultz, Vandana Singh, Paul Melko, Kelly Link, Ian McDonald, Simon McCaffery, E. Catherine Tobler, Alastair Reynolds, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, David Barr Kirtley, Mercurio D. Rivera, Jeff VanderMeer, George R. R. Martin, Carrie Vaughn, Tim Pratt, Robert Reed, Catherynne M. Valente, Yoon Ha Lee, Orson Scott Card, Christie Yant, Robert Silverberg, Ross E. Lockhart

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Heart of the Comet

1986

Gregory Benford, David Brin, Gabrielle de Cuir, P J Ochlan, Cassandra De Cuir

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Great Science Fiction

1985

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Gregory Benford, Robert L. Forward, Paul J. Nahin, Charles Sheffield, Kurd Laßwitz, Vernor Vinge, Fred Hoyle, Philip Latham, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, G. Harry Stine, J. R. Pierce, Larry Eisenberg, Jesse F. Bone, James McConnell, James Tiptree, Jr., Chad Oliver, Morton Klass, Suzette Haden Elgin, Mario Pei

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Mathenauts

1987

Rudy Rucker, Isaac Asimov, Norman Kagan, Greg Bear, Ruth Berman, Anatoly Dnieprov, Martin Gardner, Ian Watson, Kathryn Cramer, George Zebrowski, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Don Sakers, Larry Niven, William F. Orr, Marc Laidlaw, Robert Sheckley, Henry Gross, Frederik Pohl, Gregory Benford

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The End of the World -- stories of the apocalypse

2010

Martin H. Greenberg, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, George R. R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, Rick Hautala, Lucius Shepard, Norman Spinrad, Lester del Rey, William F. Nolan, Roger Zelazny, Gregory Benford, Michael Swanwick, John Wyndham, Andrea Edwards, Nancy Kress, Robert Sheckley, Arthur C. Clarke, John Helfers, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg

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Loosed Upon the World

2015

John Joseph Adams, Paolo Bacigalupi, Seanan McGuire, Karl Schroeder, Trudel, Jean-Louis, Tobias S. Buckell, Nancy Kress, Jim Shepard, Sean McMullen, Robert Silverberg, Alan Dean Foster, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vandana Singh, Angela Penrose, Chris Bachelder, Gregory Benford, Nicole Feldringer, Jason Gurley, Charlie Jane Anders, 刘慈欣, Craig DeLancey, Craig DeLancey, Cat Sparks, Margaret Atwood, Ramez Naam

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Dragon Tales

1982

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Evelyn E. Smith, David Drake, L. Sprague De Camp, Gregory Benford, Marc Laidlaw, Fitz-James O'Brien, Orson Scott Card, L. Frank Baum, Dean Koontz, Gordon R. Dickson, Thomas N. Scortia, Janet Fox, Anne McCaffrey

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Creations

1983

Isaac Asimov, George Zebrowski, Martin H. Greenberg, James E. Gunn, Steven Weinberg, Stanisław Lem, Clifford D. Simak, Gregory Benford, Laurence Manning, Brian W. Aldiss, A. E. van Vogt, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, Raymond Z. Gallun, Eric Frank Russell, H. G. Wells, Chad Oliver, Theodore L. Thomas, Richard McKenna, Ian Watson

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Year's Best SF 9

2004

Octavia E. Butler, Geoff Ryman, Tony Ballantyne, Nancy Kress, Joe Haldeman, Charles Stross, Angélica Beatriz del Rosario Arcal de Gorodischer, Michael Swanwick, John Varley, Gene Wolfe, Gregory Benford, Ricard de la Casa Pérez, Pedro Jorge Romero, Cory Doctorow, Robert Reed, Kage Baker, Nigel Brown, Allen M. Steele, M. Rickert, Stephen Baxter, Rick Moody

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The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction

1993

Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, James Tiptree, Jr., Barry N. Malzberg, Suzy McKee Charnas, Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Robert Silverberg, Nancy Kress, Kim Stanley Robinson, Walter Jon Williams

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Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World

1982

Kathleen Moloney, Gregory Benford, Isaac Asimov, Gene Wolfe, Harry Turtledove, Elizabeth A. Lynn, Connie Willis, Rand B. Lee, Peter Payack, Ted Reynolds, Ted Reynolds, Joan D. Vinge, Robert Silverberg, Barry B. Longyear

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COSM

1998

Gregory Benford