Gregory Benford
A working astrophysicist whose hard SF brings the real texture of scientific life to the cosmic stage.
Gregory Benford is an American astrophysicist and one of the foremost authors of hard science fiction. His Nebula-winning Timescape is a landmark — a meticulous, deeply authentic novel about scientists attempting to send a warning back through time — and his sweeping Galactic Center saga pits humanity against vast machine intelligences across cosmic timescales.
A genuine research physicist, Benford grounds his fiction in real science and, just as valuably, in the real culture and process of science itself: the rivalries, the grant-chasing, the painstaking work. Expect rigorous extrapolation, authentic scientific atmosphere, and grand cosmic vision. For readers who want hard SF written by someone who lives the science — plausible, intelligent, and reaching toward the truly vast — Benford is a major figure, and Timescape in particular is one of the most convincing portraits of how science actually works ever put into fiction.
- For lovers of authentic hard SF
- The Nebula-winning Timescape and Galactic Center
- Real science and real scientific life
