Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford has written at least 129 books. Their most popular book is In the Ocean of Night with 57 saves with an average rating of 3.32⭐.
Author Bio
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
1980 • 54 Readers • 415 pages • 3.2
#1 of 3 in Second Foundation Trilogy
1997 • 39 Readers • 425 pages • 3.8
#1 of 2 in Bowl of Heaven
2012 • 22 Readers • 415 pages • 3.1
2014 • 22 Readers • 532 pages • 3
22 Readers • 3.8
#1 of 5 in The Infinity Project
2011 • 21 Readers • 333 pages • 4.2
2017 • 17 Readers • 480 pages • 3.3
1993 • 14 Readers • 384 pages • 2.9
2021 • 14 Readers • 496 pages • 2.3
1985 • 12 Readers • 533 pages • 2.8
#4 of 5 in The Infinity Project
2015 • 11 Readers • 441 pages • 4
#6 of 6 in Galactic Center
1995 • 8 Readers • 445 pages • 3.1
1990 • 8 Readers • 339 pages • 3
8 Readers • 3.7
#0 of 7 in The Uplift Saga
2006 • 6 Readers • 944 pages • 2.3
2011 • 6 Readers • 11 pages • 3.3
1991 • 6 Readers • 438 pages • 3.5
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2 Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction
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40 Pern (Chronological Order)
1994 • 4 Readers • 421 pages
#1 of 13 in Heroes in Hell
1986 • 4 Readers • 274 pages • 4
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#1 of 2 in Adventures of Viktor & Julia
1999 • 4 Readers • 352 pages • 3.3
#34 of 10 in The Year's Best Science Fiction
2017 • 4 Readers • 703 pages • 3
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#17 of 3 in Year's Best SF
2012 • 2 Readers • 504 pages
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#0.5 of 6 in Galactic Center
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3 Year's Best SF
2004 • 2 Readers • 516 pages • 3
#2 of 2 in Adventures of Viktor & Julia
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#0.1 of 21 in Pern
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#19 of 5 in Annual World's Best SF
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#5.5 of 6 in Galactic Center
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#1 of 1 in What Might Have Been
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Planned book #2 of 3 in The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories
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