Gregory Benford
( born in Mobile, Alabama, on January 30, 1941)
"At its best, science fiction isn't just
"fiction about science" - it is science thinking about itself as a human
agenda in the dimension of time. It necessarily speculates, making ranging
forays into territories seldom illuminated coherently in our era of intense
narrowness."
(Gregory Benford)
Gregory Benford is a physicist,
educator, and sci-fi author. In 1963, he received a B.S. from the University
of Oklahoma, and then attended the University of California, San Diego,
where he received his Ph.D. in 1967. Benford is the author of over dozen
novels,
including Jupiter Project,
Artifact,
Against Infinity, Great Sky River, and Timescape.
He is a two-time winner of the Nebula Award, Benford has also won the John
W. Campbell Award, the Australian Ditmar Award, the 1995 Lord Foundation
Award for achievement in the sciences, and the 1990 United Nations Medal
in Literature.
His most important novel is
certainly Timescape, 1980 (Pocket Books, New York, 1981) where time
travel is possible in a Many-Worlds reality. It has received Nebula Award,
Campbell Award, Ditmar Award, and British SF Award
