Gregory Benford

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Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who works at the University of California, Irvine, as Professor Emeritus.

He is a contributing editor of Reason magazine.Benford wrote the Galactic Center Saga science fiction books, beginning with In the Ocean of Night (1977).

Sensible organic life is in constant conflict with sentient electromechanical life, as shown by the series. He wrote "The Scarred Man," the first story about a computer virus that was published in 1970.

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Writing career

Gregory Benford's first commercial appearance was the story "Stand-In" in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (June 1965), which received second prize in a short story competition based on a poem by Doris Pitkin Buck. He started writing a science column for Amazing Stories in 1969.

Benford writes hard science fiction that incorporates the findings he's doing as a practical scientist. He has worked on projects with authors William Rotsler, David Brin, and Gordon Eklund. Timescape (1980) was a winner of both the Nebula Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The scientific procedural novel eventually loaned its name to a Pocket Books line of science fiction. He wrote Foundation's Fear, one of an approved sequel to Isaac Asimov's Foundation series in the late 1990s. Several other near-future science thrillers have been published in that period: Cosm (1998), The Martian Race (1999), and Eater (2000).

Benford has worked on several alternate history anthologies as well as collections of Hugo Award winners.

He has been nominated for four Hugo Awards (for two short stories and two novellas) as well as 12 Nebula Awards (in both categories). In comparison to Timescape, he received the Nebula award for the bookette "If the Stars Are Gods" (with Eklund). The Asimov Prize was given to him in 2005 by the MIT SF Society.

At Aussiecon Three, the 1999 Worldcon, Benford was a guest of honour. For example, Apparatchik (defunct as of 1997) is a regular contributor to science fiction fanzines, as he does Apparatchik.

Benford was the recipient of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society's Lifetime Achievement Award in the Field of Science Fiction in 2016.

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Scientific awards and recognition

• Phi Beta Kappa
• Woodrow Wilson Fellow
• Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Visiting Fellow
  • Cambridge University
  • University of Turin
  • University of Bologna.
• 1995 Lord Prize for contributions to science
• 2006 Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine