Science fiction author and physicist Gregory Benford has declared that: " SF is perhaps the defining genre of the twentieth century, although its conquering armies are still camped outside the Rome of the literary citadels.

Benford has said he is an atheist, though his views are not settled.

Benford has also served as an editor of numerous alternate history anthologies as well as collections of Hugo Award winners.

Most recently it has appeared with a sequel by Gregory Benford called Beyond the Fall of Night.

He has played with the likes of Ralph Sutton, Tommy Benford, Buzzy Drootin, Ross Petot, Sammy Price, Benny Waters, Doc Cheatham, Dick Wetmore, Marty Grosz and Scott Hamilton.

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It was started in the 1950s by Gregory Benford and his identical twin brother Jim Benford, when they were living in Germany ; then later co-edited by Gregory Benford, Ted White, Terry Carr, and Peter Graham.

Alumni include Forrest J Ackerman, Gregory Benford, James Blish, Robert Bloch, Marion Zimmer Bradley, F. M. Busby, Terry Carr, Jack Chalker, Willis Conover, E. Everett Evans, Richard Geis, Jim Harmon, Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Lee Hoffman, Damon Knight, David Langford, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Sam Moskowitz, Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg and Wilson Tucker.

Gregory Benford and David Brin's Heart of the Comet features a comet with a conventional carbon-and-water-based ecosystem that becomes active near the perihelion when the Sun warms it.

# A Darker Geometry ( 1996, with Mark O. Martin and Gregory Benford )

As a science fiction author, Benford is perhaps best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, beginning with In the Ocean of Night ( 1977 ).

Working in collaboration with, among others, science fiction writers Cramer, Forward, and Landis, Benford worked on a theoretical study of the physics of wormholes, which pointed out that wormholes, if formed in the early universe, could still exist in the present day if they were wrapped in a negative-mass cosmic string.

* Tony Benford, assistant coach with the Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball team

* Time Travel, Times Scapes, and Timescape ( 2000, with Russell Blackford, Alison Goodman, Damien Broderick, Aubrey Townsend, Gregory Benford ) in The New York Review of Science Fiction August 2000, ( ed.

Timescape is a 1980 novel by science fiction writer Gregory Benford ( with unbilled co-author Hilary Foister ).

* FlashForward: When the FBI agents Mark Benford and Demetri Noh are staking out taking photos of a woman, a billboard with the Oceanic Airlines logo can be seen.

Gregory Benford wrote a sequel titled Beyond the Fall of Night, with Clarke's approval, which follows the original novel but not the revised version, and it is generally printed with the original as a single volume.

An aging Robert Zubrin also appears as a background character in The Martian Race ( 1999 ) by Gregory Benford, a science fiction novel depicting early human explorers on Mars in the very near future.

Gregory Benford ( born January 30, 1941 in Mobile, Alabama ) is 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.

Benford serves on the board of directors and the steering committee of the Mars Society.

* In the FlashForward episode, " The Garden of Forking Paths ", Mark Benford discovers on Dyson Frost's chalkboard that December 12, 2016 was ambiguously labeled, " The Start "".

Fiennes starred in the ABC science fiction series FlashForward, which debuted on 24 September 2009 and ran through 27 May 2010, as Mark Benford.

* Essay by author and Gregory Benford on SFsite

These efforts are led by John Renfrew, an Englishman, and Gregory Markham, an American most likely modeled on Benford himself.

By then, a neo-Campbellian revival of hard science fiction after 1982 at the hands of David Brin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear and others had emerged.

Benford tends to write hard science fiction which incorporates the research he is doing as a practical scientist.

* Artifact, a 1985 science fiction novel by Gregory Benford

Theodore L. Thomas, Gregory Benford and Pat Murphy have also contributed science columns.

Foundation's Fear ( 1997 ) is a science fiction novel by Gregory Benford, set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe.

In 2004, physicist and science fiction author Gregory Benford calculated that a concave rotating Fresnel lens 1000 kilometres across, yet only a few millimeters thick, floating in space at the point, would reduce the solar energy reaching the Earth by approximately 0. 5 % to 1 %.

* In the science fiction novel Timescape, by Gregory Benford, the nuclear plants at San Onofre raised the water temperature along the adjacent coast, which stimulated aquatic life.

Eater is a hard science fiction novel written by UC-Irvine physics professor Gregory Benford.

Benford's law of controversy, as expressed by science-fiction author Gregory Benford in 1980, states: Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real ( true ) information available.

Gregory Benford had a form of plasma-based life exist in the accretion disk of a primordial black hole in his novel Eater.

* 1948 – Frank Benford, American electrical engineer and physicist ( b. 1883 )

Benford, who is also an astrophysicist, is a longtime member of both the board of directors and the steering committee of the Mars Society.

Some hard SF authors have distinguished themselves as working scientists, including Gregory Benford, Geoffrey A. Landis and David Brin, while mathematician authors include Rudy Rucker and Vernor Vinge.

Notable writing judges have included: Algis Budrys, Gregory Benford, Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Jack Williamson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Brian Herbert, K. D. Wentworth, Tim Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Andre Norton, Larry Niven, and Anne McCaffrey.

A variation, developed by brothers James Benford and Gregory Benford, is to use thermal desorption of propellant trapped in the material of a very large microwave-sail.

Benford received a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1963 from University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, followed by a Master of Science from the University of California, San Diego in 1965, and a doctorate there in 1967.

Benford modeled characters in several of his novels after her, most prominently the heroine of Artifact.