VJ Books Price $21.99 -> May have Remainder Marks or imperfections You can find a signed copy of Shadows of Eternity and a collection of other Gregory Benford signed books below.Īuthor's website: Similar authors: Stephen Baxter, Greg Bear, Ben Bova, Kim Stanley Robinson He currently lives in Laguna Beach, California. In addition to teaching and research, Benford founded a biotechnology company called Genescient, hosted and helped write the television series A Galactic Odyssey for Japan National Broadcasting, and worked as a scientific adviser for Star Trek: The Next Generation.īenford was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1941.

Benford is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and the Universities of Turin and Bologna. In this time he has published around 150 scientific papers on various subjects in physics and biological conservation, as well as many popular science articles for Amazing, Vertex, and Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. He began teaching at the University of California, Irvine and has been an Associate Professor there since 1973. from the University of California, San Diego.īenford worked for several years at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in California as a postdoctoral fellow and research physicist. He did his undergraduate degree in Physics at the University of Oklahoma and then received his Ph.D. His first novel, Deeper Than Darkness, was published in 1970. Professional writing came much later when he published his first story, “Stand-In” in 1965 while he was a PhD student at the University of California, San Diego. Like many science fiction writers, Benford began as a fan, starting the fanzine Void in 1955 at the age of 14 with his twin brother James. Campbell Award, the Australian Ditmar Award, the 1995 Lord Foundation Award for achievement in the sciences, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature. A two-time winner of the Nebula Award, Benford has also won the John W. Chasing wormholes is also a wild ride!”īenford is the author of over twenty novels, including J upiter Project, Artifact, Against Infinity, Eater, and Timescape. Jack McDevitt, bestselling author of Octavia Gone, calls it “A fascinating plunge into a new world,” and says, “I loved the idea of the SETI Library on the moon. His latest novel, Shadows of Eternity takes the reader on a new interstellar science fiction ride two centuries from now where a discovery within the SETI library on the moon turns out to be deadly. VJ Books Presents Author Gregory Benford! Gregory Benford is a science fiction writer best known for his Galactic Center Saga ( In the Ocean of Night, Across the Sea of Suns, Great Sky River, Tides of Light, Furious Gulf, and Sailing Bright Eternity.) You are here: Home > Our Authors > Benford, Gregory

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