Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford has published over thirty books, mostly novels.  Nearly all remain in print, some after a quarter of a century.  His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape.  A winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, he is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine.  He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for contributions to science.  He won the Japan Seiun Award for Dramatic Presentation with his 7-hour series, A Galactic Odyssey.  In 2007 he won the Asimov Award for science writing.  His 1999 analysis of what endures, Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia, has been widely read.  A fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, he continues his research in both astrophysics and plasma physics and biotech.

Recently published - The Sunborn

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