Gregory Benford

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born

January 30, 1941 in Mobile, Alabama, The United States

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http://www.gregorybenford.com/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science

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Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.
As a science fiction author, Benford is best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, beginning with In the Ocean of Night (1977). This series postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient mechanical life.

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Books by Gregory Benford

Average rating: 3.61 · 11,192 ratings · 708 reviews · 169 distinct works

	Timescape 3.57 avg rating — 1,948 ratings — published 1980 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Foundation's Fear 3.60 avg rating — 1,464 ratings — published 1997 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Heart of the Comet by Gregory Benford, David Brin (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 593 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions	My rating:
	In the Ocean of Night (Galactic Center, #1) 3.54 avg rating — 536 ratings — published 1977 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Great Sky River (Galactic Center, #3) 3.80 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 1987 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Across the Sea of Suns (Galactic Center, #2) 3.61 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 1984 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Tides of Light (Galactic Center, #4) 3.70 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 1989 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Artifact 3.29 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 1985 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Sailing Bright Eternity (Galactic Center, #6) 3.79 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 1995 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Cosm 3.55 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	My rating:

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Series by Gregory Benford

Galactic Center Saga (6 books)
by Gregory Benford

3.67 avg rating — 2,002 ratings

Adventures of Viktor & Julia (2 books)
by Gregory Benford

3.48 avg rating — 252 ratings

What Might Have Been (4 books)
by Gregory Benford (editor), Martin H. Greenberg (editor)

3.48 avg rating — 173 ratings

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Quotes by Gregory Benford

“Around them small animals scampered along knotted cables and flaking vines, chirruping, squealing, venting yellow farts. Everywhere was animation, purpose, hurry. Momentum.”
― Gregory Benford

tags: beyond-infinity

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“It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that one is an insect, crawling across a page of the Encyclopedia Britannica, knowing only that something vast is passing by beneath, all without your sensing more than a yawning vacancy.”
― Gregory Benford

tags: et , extraterrestrial-life

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Heart of the Comet by Gregory Benford

First published in 1986; GR friends give it between 3-5 stars

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