Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benfordis an American science fiction author and astrophysicist 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 January 1941
CountryUnited States of America
moving mean space
Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.
shining
To shine is better than to reflect.
moving wind sea
Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.
real passion information
Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available
chemistry experiments
When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.
technology doe
Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.
dream attitude spring
SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious. Anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out. Nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible.
cutting ideas people
Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a chilling look at alien machine intelligence, to cutting-edge chaos theory, to the pangs of finite humans in the face of the infinite. If you like intriguing ideas delivered in an exciting plot, this is your meat.
real iron greek
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.
self people identity
People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.
loss information structure
Disintegration of structure equals information loss.
workers
They will do anything for the worker, except become one.
air peers speech
The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.
england taste prosperous
At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.