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	Gregory Benford: Science Fiction Author
		Gregory Benford has published over twenty books, mostly novels.
		Read An Introduction to Gregory Benford by Peter Nicholls.
		Working from a thrilling premise and with original, speculative science, Benford, a premier practitioner of hard sf, is in top form.
	www.gregorybenford.com (612 words)

	Brother Kneumsi's FAQ Page! (Your moose is clearly Satan!)
		Gregory Benford is the Author of Foundation's Fear which is an entry into the Foundation series of Novels that Isaac Asimov wrote.
		Undaunted, Benford and company made up their own story without paying attention to what Asimov had written, regardless of the vast lapses in continuity that this caused.
		I admit it, it was a Gregory Benford Moment!
	www.worldsgreatestcritic.com /faqreview.html (6938 words)

	Locus Online: Gregory Benford interview (excerpts)
		Gregory Albert Benford was born January 30, 1941, in Mobile, Alabama, along with his identical twin, James.
		He earned his Ph.D. in physics from UC San Diego in 1967, worked at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory from 1967 to 1971, then joined UC Irvine, where he became a full professor of physics in 1979.
		But the novel which established Benford's reputation was Timescape (1980), winner of both a Nebula and a Campbell Memorial Award, combining near-future thriller with a detailed portrayal of scientists at work.
	www.locusmag.com /2000/Issues/01/Benford.html (1168 words)

	Amazon.com: The Martian Race: Books: Gregory Benford (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Benford is down on NASA (or the Federal government, or both), postulating a competition to Mars with a huge purse ($30 billion) as the way to get a human expedition there.
		Benford put his lead characters through so many troubles (it actually got depressing at one point) in order to show the extent of danger and difficulties he expects planetary explorers to face that he left them only one way out.
		Benford's science is always rock-solid, and his knowledge of the scientific community serves him well here, too, but this story seems to get bogged down before liftoff.
	www.amazon.com /Martian-Race-Gregory-Benford/dp/0446608904 (2230 words)

	Gregory Benford: Science Fiction Author
		Gregory Benford -- physicist, educator, author -- was born in Mobile, Alabama, on January 30, 1941.
		Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 1971.
		In 1989 Benford was host and scriptwriter for the television series A Galactic Odyssey, which described modern physics and astronomy from the perspective of the evolution of the galaxy.
	www.gregorybenford.com /bio.php (409 words)

	Gregory Benford
		Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is a science fiction author and physicist who teaches at the University of California, Irvine.
		Benford has an identical twin brother, Jim Benford, with whom he has collaborated on science fiction stories and projects.
		Benford tends to write hard science fiction which incorporates the research he is doing as a practical scientist.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gr/Gregory_Benford.html (318 words)

	Gregory Benford
		Benford recognizes that scientists spend only a small portion of their lives doing meaningful scientific research (the stuff traditional science fiction is made of) and a lot of their time doing things that pay the bills and keep the grant money flowing.
		Benford has no belief in science as a universal language; its terms, concepts, and basic materials shift dramatically in the forty years which separate the two groups of protagonists in his story.
		Benford writes what is known as "hard science fiction" -- which is to say, his novels are grounded in physic and astronomy, rather than in the social sciences.
	web.mit.edu /m-i-t/science_fiction/profiles/benford.html (2220 words)

	Gregory Benford Biography and List of Works - Gregory Benford Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gregory Benford, in addition to being a well-known author of hard science fiction, is a physicist who has hypothesized about conditions on Earth in the far distant future.
		Gregory Benford writes the first installment in a trilogy that will be continued by fellow sci-fi heavyweights Greg Bear and David Brin.
		Benford was among the first to explore the use of tachyonics in science fiction.
	www.biblio.com /author.php?author=243 (1239 words)

	Biography of Gregory Benford @ SciFi-Fantasy-info.com
		Gregory Benford tends to write hard science fiction which incorporates the research he is doing as a practical scientist.
		In addition to establishing Benford's Law of Controversy, Gregory Benford has proposed a corollary to Clarke's third law: "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced," and claims to have created and written about the first computer virus in the late 1960s.
		In 2004, Gregory Benford proposed that the harmful effects of global warming could be reduced by the construction of a rotating Fresnel lens 1000 kilometres across, floating in space at the Lagrangian point L1.
	www.scifi-fantasy-info.com /gregory-benford.html (511 words)

	Gregory Benford Novels
		Set a mere 20 years in the future, Benford does an excellent job of telling a believable story of the first mission to Mars.
		Benford maintains a credible level of tension throughout the novel although he appears to hurry towards a conclusion.
		Benford once again proves why he was deserving of two Nebula Awards.
	www.futurefiction.com /gregory_benford_novels.htm (443 words)

	The Dragon Page » Gregory Benford
		Gregory Benford — physicist, educator, author — was born in Mobile, Alabama, on January 30, 1941.
		Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 1971.
		In 1989 Benford was host and scriptwriter for the television series A Galactic Odyssey, which described modern physics and astronomy from the perspective of the evolution of the galaxy.
	www.dragonpage.com /2004/05/31/gregory-benford (589 words)

	Gregory Benford
		In Benford's view, "People build their lives around work, yet how often does the subject appear in fiction as a direct sensation, a lived experience?" Central to Benford's fiction are the characters of scientists at work.
		Benford is the first among the hard science fiction writers to have mastered and integrated Modernist techniques of characterization and use of metaphor.
		Since the 1970s, Benford had been a staunch and articulate defender of hard science fiction, both as a public personality in the sf field and in essays and articles, speaking with the force of experience as a working scientist and as perhaps the most respected hard sf writer of his generation.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/ascent-old/Benford.html (1199 words)

	Amazon.de: Sailing Bright Eternity (Galactic Centre): English Books: Gregory Benford (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fifteen years ago, Benford's Timescape set the tone for the subgenre of "hard" science fiction that deals with quantum effects and particle physics, the discoveries and theories of which often make their fictional expressions seem more akin to fantasy than to traditional SF.
		While a reader's tenacity?which is what sets humans apart from others in Benford's conception of the universe?is occasionally tested, this novel stands as a worthy conclusion to what now should be acknowledged as the most important and involving hard SF series yet written.
		Benford makes up for his somewhat pedantic prose with a wealth of fascinating scientific speculation in a dazzling finish to one of the best hard-sf sagas ever written.
	www.amazon.de /Sailing-Bright-Eternity-Gregory-Benford/dp/0575600470 (1065 words)

	Gregory Benford
		Physicist and astronomer Gregory Benford is the author of Timescape, winner of the Nebula and John W. Campbell Awards, as well as such such popular novels as The Sunborn, In The Oceans of Night, Tides of Light, and Great Sky River.
		Benford has also edited a number of anthologies, and is a science columnist for F&SF.
		In 1989 Benford served as host and scriptwriter for A Galactic Odyssey, an eight-part television series which described modern physics and astronomy from the perspective of the evolution of the galaxy.
	www.nndb.com /people/274/000091998 (341 words)

	Amazon.fr : Foundation's Fear: Livres en anglais: Gregory Benford (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As Benford's contribution commences, Seldon is the leading candidate for first minister of the empire and naturally attracts rivals, opponents, and outright enemies, both on account of his political prominence and out of suspicion of his theories, which approximate early versions of psychohistory.
		Benford's previous output includes a sequel to a story written by Arthur C. Clarke (Beyond the Fall of Night, 1990).
		Gregory Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine.
	www.amazon.fr /Foundations-Fear-Gregory-Benford/dp/product-description/1857235630 (1016 words)

	Gregory Benford \| Interviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		Gregory Benford is one of the two or three leading exponents of hard science fiction writing today, an heir to the throne of Heinlein, Clarke, and Asimov...
		Benford has won every major SF award, as well as many prestigious national and international prizes for his scientific work.
		Benford: My favorite definition of consciousness is very general, so applies to any substrate: the ability to model both the external world and the internal world, so one is aware of one's position in the whole.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/interviews/sfw5466.html (1518 words)

	Gregory Benford - Jim Baen's Universe
		Benford has been a Californian for several decades now, but his childhood was in the Deep South, in Alabama, plus years spent in Japan and Germany because his army-officer father was posted there.
		Benford's absence is arguably the major omission in the list of Hugo winners over the last three decades.
		Benford must be the pre-eminent inventor of aliens working in sf today, and he really thinks them through.
	preview.baens-universe.com /authors/Gregory_Benford (2445 words)

	Review on Foundation's Fear - Gregory Benford by ram_cv - MouthShut.com
		Gregory Benford and team have an uphill task to meet such high standards especially when their insight into the plot is just from the point of what they have read about the foundation series and then they have to develop things on their own.
		Although Gregory Benford has taken the right topics to address in ’’Foundation’s Fear’’ and has a decent plot, the writing style of Gregory Benford and the way he develops the story leaves a lot to be desired.
		Gregory Benford is a physicist, educator and author from Alabama.
	www.mouthshut.com /review/Foundation's_Fear_-_Gregory_Benford-82326.html (1230 words)

	Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Dr. Gregory Benford
		Gregory Benford is the professor of Plasma Physics and Astrophysics at UCIrvine (University of California, Irvine).
		Gregory tends to write hard science fiction which incorporates the research he is doing as a practical scientist.
		Gregory has also served as an editor of numerous alternate history anthologies as well as collections of Hugo Winners.
	lifeboat.com /ex/bios.gregory.benford (456 words)

	Rambles: Gregory Benford, The Sunborn (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gregory Benford is among the best of those who write hard science fiction -- stories featuring detailed explanations of the scientific assumptions underlying key plot elements.
		Benford's characters, and many scientists employed by NASA in the real world, just can't understand why someone wouldn't want to go to Mars or Pluto or Alpha Centauri if they had the chance.
		Read Benford to get a glimpse of their sense of wonder and awe as the universe grudgingly gives up its secrets.
	www.rambles.net /benford_sunborn05.html (458 words)

	Gregory Benford: Cosm - an infinity plus review
		Benford writes about science as a search for truth, much as a beat copper might write about policing as a desire to serve and to protect.
		And just as Benford is well placed to write a paean to scientific method and does so here, superbly for that very reason, he also inevitably magnifies some of his institution's more recent anxieties.
		From that last great beleaguered bastion of pure science, particle physics, Benford casts a caustic and unhappy eye over disciplines fallen and corrupted (biology comes in for some real stick; Richard Dawkins is 'sarcastic and insightful rather than original') and, beyond them, a public 'with the attention span of a commercial'.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/cosm.htm (1271 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sailing Bright Eternity: Books: Gregory Benford (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Benford introduces the concept of an esty, and although central to the plot and events of the novel, Benford does a bad job of making the etsy (is it a time?
		Also, the book isnt helped by the way Benford devotes entire chapters to events and characters, who are memorable only for the degree to which they turn out to be irrelevant.
		Benford takes tired old themes from Dawkin's memes argument, Cairns-Smith's "we came from clay" theory, Turing's "no virus checker is possible" result, and the result is a Maalox moment.
	www.amazon.ca /Sailing-Bright-Eternity-Gregory-Benford/dp/0553573322 (2224 words)

	Gregory Benford, Artifact
		Archaeology and particle physics do not have a lot in common but something they do share is the application of the scientific method for the purposes of exploration -- humanity's past being the territory over which one ranges, and the fundamental fabric of the universe the other's.
		Gregory Benford skilfully exploits this point of intersection between the two disciplines in creating his science fiction thriller Artifact.
		That even a SF author as distinguished as Gregory Benford doesn't always succeed in passing this test, as here, shows just how difficult it can be.
	www.rambles.net /benford_artifact98.html (610 words)

	Critical Praise: Gregory Benford (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A practicing physicist, he writes plausible hard SF as well as anyone on the planet, and his portrait of Mars is among the most believable in recent genre literature.
		Although Benford himself is an advocate of sending flesh-and-blood explorers to Mars, he is fully aware of the inherent risk.
		Benford is a rarity: a scientist who writes with verve and insight not only about fl holes and cosmic strings but about human desires and fears."
	www.twbookmark.com /authors/25/1807/critical_praise.html (942 words)

	Gregory Benford (Site not responding. Last check: )
		'Benford is one of the most literate of the contemporary masters of the genre, with nuts-and-bolts SF merging into the aura of philosophical conjecture with seamless compulsion' The Times
		Benford is a rarity: a scientist who writes with verve and insight, not only about fl holes and cosmic strings, but about human desires and fears' New York Times Book Review
		'Benford's most personal and heartfelt work, masterpiece that lives well beyond the 1980s, and a grand example of how SF and science echo each other.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/gregorybenford.html (628 words)

	Amazon.ca: Foundation's Fear: Books: Gregory Benford,Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Benford's Foundation's Fear strikes off in a different direction, which at first I found difficult, but then greatly appreciated.
		Benford took the story and wrote it the way I believe Asimov would have liked it to be written like.
		But Benford is from our generation, and it annoyed me to come across his weird social views about "homosexuals" (e.g., paperback page 208) and male dominance over women as part of human nature (e.g., pages 244-45).
	www.amazon.ca /Foundations-Fear-Gregory-Benford/dp/0061052434 (1541 words)

	SCIFI.COM Chat Transcripts: Gregory Benford & James Patrick Kelly, March 14, 2000
		Gregory: Let's not discuss the Nebula Ballot...too depressing...--GB Gardner: So, at literally the last moment, I press-ganged THESE two gentlemen, Gregory Benford and James Patrick Kelly, both Hugo winners and fine Human Beings, into fililng in.
		Gregory: I discussed the 2-time-axes notion with Brian Greene, he of the string theory book, and he finds it hard to envision, too...--GB Gardner: Greg is also a Scientist, as you can tell by his ability to use words like "time-axes" without stammering and blushing.
		Gregory: I suspect there's a good story in the idea now...--GB Gardner: Greg, twenty years ago, I got the impression most scientists considered time-travel to be completely and utterly impossible.
	www.scifi.com /transcripts/2000/benfordkelly.html (3846 words)

	Doug's Library -- Gregory Benford
		Little did I know I was buying the first book of what was a Foundation-like series for Benford, published as it was over a span of many years with long lapses between books.
		Benford uncovers new pieces to the puzzle very deliberately, keeping the subplots stirring very well.
		Unlike Zelazny's work, however, Benford's world has no logical continuity, which may be consistent with his world-view but makes for painful reading.
	personal.tcu.edu /~dingram/books/gbenford.html (1292 words)

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