Gregory Benford
Biography
Gregory Benford is the author of more than 20 novels, including Jupiter Project, Artifact, Against Infinity, Eater, and Timescape. A two-time winner of the Nebula Award, Benford has also won the John W. Campbell Award, the Australian Ditmar Award, the 1995 Lord Foundation Award for achievement in the sciences, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature.
Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, where he conducts research in plasma turbulence theory and experiment, and in astrophysics. He has published well over 100 papers in the fields of physics from condensed matter, particle physics, plasmas and mathematical physics, and several in biological conservation.
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Books
Anomalies, a Collection of Short Fiction
by Gregory Benford
Price: $6.99 USD. 73020 words.
Published on May 4, 2012. Fiction.
A Collection of science fiction ranging from comic to apocalyptic, the stories of Anomalies challenge concepts of time, space and science. And all the while, Author Gregory Benford's characters charm us.
Includes Afterwords and insights by Gregory Benford into his writing methods, sometimes quite idiosyncratic – and into the stories behind the stories.
Taking Science into Inspired Realms
Chiller
by Gregory Benford
Price: $7.00 USD. 195870 words.
Published on August 3, 2011. Fiction.
Chiller – one of Gregory Benford's most thrilling convergences of science and imagination! What happens when cryonics works? When scientists awaken the cryonically preserved "Chillers" who lie frozen and waiting? Benford gives us a story that snaps along through the crazed mind of a serial killer, the scientists he stalks, and the chilling results of science advancing against death.
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