Gregory Benford, Author Tor Books $14.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-312-93344-9
The award-winning author (If the Stars Are Gods, Timescape has a reputation for bridging the often hostile camps of hard-science SF and the more literary, humanist variety. In this collection of stories from the past decade, however, his contentious
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Gregory Benford. Saga, $26.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8764-1
SF author Benford (the Galactic Center series) makes the relevant science accessible to the lay reader in this intriguing alternate history thriller that speculates on the road not taken in the U.S.’s frantic path toward developing an atomic bomb...
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Gregory Benford, Author HarperPrism $23 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-105243-9
Set thousands of years in the future, this novel begins the Second Foundation Trilogy, a prequel to Isaac Asimov's famous original (1951-1953) about the waning centuries of a galactic empire. The story opens with Hari Seldon, the protagonist of the...
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Gregory Benford, Author Spectra Books $22.95 (404p) ISBN 978-0-553-08655-3
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...
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Gregory Benford, Author Spectra Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09661-3
This fifth installment (after Tides of Light ) in Benford's ``Galactic Center'' series, set thousands of years in the future, finds the remaining humans from the planet Snowglade fleeing the genocidal Mechs in the spaceship Argo . As the vessel...
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Gregory Benford, Author Spectra Books $17.95 (468p) ISBN 978-0-553-05125-4
To celebrate the rturn of Halley's comet this year, two of SF's best young writers have collaborated on this long, intriguing but ultimately depressing novel that begins with the next fly-by in 2061. An ambitious expedition uses the iceball as a...
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Gregory Benford, Author . Warner Aspect $23.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-446-53059-0
Expanded from his 1990 novella, "Beyond the Fall of Night," this dense, lively, far-future SF novel from Benford (The Martian Race
) sweeps readers away in a taut adventure that examines humanity's role in steering the fate of the...
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Gregory Benford, Author Eos $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-380-97436-8
Benford (The Martian Race), a physics professor at UC-Irvine and a Nebula winner for his novel Timescape, is one of the leading exponents of hard SF--which, no matter how fantastic it might seem, never violates established scientific laws. His...
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Gregory Benford, Author Avon Books $20 (225p) ISBN 978-0-380-97537-2
In his first foray into book-length nonfiction, acclaimed science fiction writer and physics professor Benford (Timescape, Cosm etc.) combines a scientist's perspective and a novelist's imagination to produce a provocative and disturbing look into ""
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Gregory Benford, Author Aspect $23 (344p) ISBN 978-0-380-97435-1
Alicia Butterworth, a talented young black scientist, is elated to be able to try out her experiment in nuclear physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Things quickly go wrong with the experiment, however. After...
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Gregory Benford, Author Eos $14.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-380-79054-8
For readers more familiar with this acclaimed hard-SF author's illuminating and genre-stretching novels (Eater; Cosm; etc.), this story collection is an excellent chance to discover his equally adept shorter work. The 10 stories and two novellas...
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Gregory Benford, Author Aspect $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-446-52633-3
With so many Mars novels having been published in recent years, including award-winning fiction by Kim Stanley Robinson and others, it's hard to believe that even a talented writer like Benford (Cosm) could pull off another successful retelling of...
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Gregory Benford, Author . Warner Aspect $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-53058-3
In this unexceptional and somewhat slow-moving follow-up to The Martian Race
(1999), Benford sends Julia and Viktor, the first astronauts to land on Mars, off to Pluto to investigate a number of strange phenomena. The solar system's coldest,...
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Gregory Benford, edited by David G. Hartwell. Subterranean (subterraneanpress.com), $40 (616p) ISBN 978-1-59606-686-1
This uneven collection by the prolific Benford (the Galactic Center Saga novels), who’s best known for the hard-science underpinnings of his SF, draws from over four decades of work. Inevitably, a collection this broad will include some dated...
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Gregory Benford and Larry Niven. Tor, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2841-0
SF doyens Benford (Chiller) and Niven (the Ringworld series) collaborate on a strong SF series launch. Something goes wrong with Earth’s SunSeeker space expedition, leaving the crew without enough fuel or supplies to reach their destination. Just as
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Gregory Benford, Author, Elisabeth Malartre, Author Forge $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1082-8
The simple title of this book belies its profundity-and its sense of humor. Besides an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of developments in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence, physicist Benford and biologist Malartre also address...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Gregory Benford, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-399-13499-9
One of Clarke's early novels, Against the Fall of Night , has long been recognized as among his very best; the tale of a young man's need to escape from the limits of the last cities on Earth, it combines the author's scientific know-how with his...
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Gregory Benford. Saga, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8769-6
Physicist Benford returns to the science of time travel first charted in his 1992 novel Timescape (coauthored by Hilary Benford) with this sometimes puerile but otherwise accessible look at specialized scientific theories and the emotional and moral
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Gregory Benford and Larry Niven. Tor, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9240-4
The disappointing third space opera in the Bowl of Heaven series from hard sci-fi doyens Benford and Niven (after 2014’s Shipstar) returns to a galaxy in which extraterrestrial life-forms have created a “vast bowl built to capture and refocus a star’
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