The Year's Best Science Fiction Nov 24, 2008
The authors collected in the 2008 edition (St Martin's Press) include tale spinners old and new, including Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, Michael Swanwick, , Bruce Sterling, Gwyneth Jones and Kage Baker. Ian Macdonald's epic storytelling is on grand display in Verthandi's Ring, and will be a joy to read for fans of hard sf and those who enjoy interesting concepts within their fiction. (Suite101.com)
NAS announces initiative to connect entertainment industry with top experts Nov 20, 2008
GREGORY BENFORD Professor of Physics University of California, Irvine. MAY BERENBAUM Professor of Entomology University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
True to Science Sci-Fi: Pocket Univ... Sep 19, 2008
True to Science Sci-Fi: Pocket Universes: How Gregory Benford Integrates Real Physics into 'Cosm ... How Gregory Benford Integrates Real Physics into 'Cosm ... In Cosm, Gregory Benford doesn t focus on the use of his pocket universe, but instead he builds a science fiction novel based around the creation, life, and death of one. (Suite101.com)
Inventing The Future Sep 13, 2008
But when David Brin, Greg Bear and Gregory Benford talk, technology leaders take note. Why. (Forbes -- Technology)
Cosm by Gregory Benford Jul 23, 2008
Cosm, by Gregory Benford, is a science fiction novel based around the idea that a physics professor accidentally creates a baby universe. Gregory Benford is a physics professor. (Suite101.com)
• Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke dies Mar 19, 2008
"I'd say he was the major hard-science fiction writer -- that is the writer of science fiction that is scientifically scrupulous -- in the second half of the 20th century," physics professor Gregory Benford of the University of California, Irvine, an award-winning science-fiction author who collaborated with Clarke on the 1990 science-fiction novel "Beyond the Fall of Night," told the Los Angeles Times in 2005. George Slusser, author of the 1978 book "The Space Odysseys of Arthur C. Clarke" and... (FOX59, IN)
Sidney Coleman; Harvard icon taught physics classes with wit Jan 20, 2008
"Sid was witty, worldly, and wise," said Gregory Benford, a professor of physics at the University of California at Irvine and an award-winning science fiction writer. "Some of that he got from reading science fiction. He saw it as the literature of ideas. And he saw science fiction as the one genre that actually tried to depict how scientists think.". (Boston Globe)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 Jul 24, 2007
edited by Gregory Benford -- The Essential SF Library. The 34th edition of the anthology series featured title changes, but little else new; as Benford is a scientist, his choices inevitably run to SF rather than fantasy. (Suite101.com)
Science fiction Jul 5, 2007
Fifty years ago this month Hugh Everett III published his paper proposing a "relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics" - the idea subsequently described as the 'many worlds' or 'multiverse' interpretation. Its impact on science and culture continues. (Nature News Service)
The Essential SF Library Jul 2, 2007
Gregory Benford Timescape. Joan D. Vinge The Snow Queen. (Suite101.com)
Climate change: Is this what it takes to save the world? May 11, 2007
"If you are digging a hole and want out of it, certainly slowing your digging rate is good," says Gregory Benford, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Irvi 00000564 ne, who is also a noted science-fiction writer and something of a geoengineering enthusiast. "But," he continues, "you need a ladder.". (Nature News Service)
