Gregory Benford

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Gregory Benford (Gregory Albert Benford) is an astrophysicist and science fiction author who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine. Benford is best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, a series that postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient electromechanical life. Greg was born in Mobile, Alabama. He received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Oklahoma, followed by his Masters and then his Doctorate from the University of California, San Diego. Having published more than 200 scientific papers, his research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics. Greg is a two-time winner of the Nebula Award and has also won the John W. Campbell Award, the Australian Ditmar Award, the Lord Foundation Prize, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature. Source: Secular Policy Institute

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Glorious
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Shadows of Eternity
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Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar
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Rewrite
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Galaxy's Edge Magazine, Issue 33, July 2018
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Galaxy's Edge Magazine. Issue 31, March 2018
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Galaxy's Edge
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New Ball Games for the Future
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Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2
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If the stars are gods
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The Berlin Project
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The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories (Volume 1)
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The Mars Girl & As Big as the Ritz
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Second Creation
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Heart of the Comet
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Shipstar: A Science Fiction Novel
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Mammoth Dawn
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The Best of Gregory Benford
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The Best of Gregory Benford
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Loosed Upon the World
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Meeting Infinity
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Galaxy's Edge Magazine
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Galaxy's Edge Magazine
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Far futures
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