Gregory Benford





Gregory Benford

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

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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.


Average rating: 3.69 · 22,636 ratings · 1,263 reviews · 222 distinct works · Similar authors
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Foundation's Fear (Second F...
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In the Ocean of Night (Gala...
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 1,076 ratings — published 1977
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 942 ratings — published 1986 — 14 editions
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“Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change.

The Sunborn”
Gregory Benford

“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

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

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Hard SF Recommendation #6

Heart of the Comet

Heart of the Comet by Gregory Benford

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

Not Interested
 
  1 vote, 50.0%

Maybe, Can't Remember, Re-read Might be Good
 
  1 vote, 50.0%

No Thanks, Read it Already
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Yes, Want to Read it
 
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