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  Timescape

  by Gregory Benford

  Detecting strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment, Gordon Bernstein, an assistant researcher at a California university, investigates and begins to uncover something that will change his life forever. Reprint. Nebula Award winner.
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  Galactic Center: Book 1

  In the Ocean of Night

  by Gregory Benford

  2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy the comet, he discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal...2034: A reply is heard. Searching for the source of this signal that comes from outside the solar system, Nigel discovers the... (more)
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  Galactic Center: Book 4

  Tides of Light

  by Gregory Benford, Nasho V. Jorgaqi

  Continuing the story begun in Great Sky River, Benford creates a stunning novel of the last band of humans fleeing extinction in the Galactic Center. And with one enemy behind them, the humans are dismayed to discover on a remote planet an alien race more awesome than any they have encountered. Reprint from Spectra.
• WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOL. 4 (What Might Have Been, No. 4)Gregory Benford

  

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  WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOL. 4 (What Might Have Been, No. 4)

  by Gregory Benford

  Fourteen of science fiction's most popular writers--including L. Sprague de Camp, Robert Silverberg, and Kim Stanley Robinson--offer their visions of an America that might have been.
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  ALTERNATE HEROES (What Might Have Been, Vol 2)

  What would have happened if history had been different-if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way-or not at all? From a Confederacy that won the Civil War to a Europe converted to Viking paganism.These bold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds-oddly familiar, disturbingly different-a glimpse of WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
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  Heart of the Comet

  by David Brin, Gregory Benford

  An odyssey of discovery, from a shattered society through the solar system with a handful of men and women who ride a cold, hurtling ball of ice to the shaky promise of a distant, unknowable future.
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  The Sunborn

  by Gregory Benford

  The award-winning author of "Timescape" and "Eater" returns with a gripping new novel set in the same dynamic future as his wildly popular "The Martian Race."
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  The Martian Race

  by Gregory Benford

  Esteemed Mars guru Bob Zubrin calls The Martian Race "one of the finest novels about human exploration of the Red Planet ever written. "But then again, Bob is a character in the book (albeit in the briefest of cameos), so what else could he possibly say? That notwithstanding, Zubrin's right--he couldn't have picked a better book to show his face in. By popular assent, Martian Race deserves top honors among the... (more)
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  Worlds Vast and Various: Stories

  by Gregory Benford

  SF readers have come to expect the universe from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Gregory Benford: fascinating multilayered characters, thrilling plots, and mind-bending scientific speculations firmly based in cutting-edge technological fact. When it comes to literate, human, unassailably possible science fiction, Benford is in a class by himself--as he proves once again in a stunning array of tales that have... (more)
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  Beyond Infinity

  by Gregory Benford

  Set a billion years into the future, this novel by the multiple award-winning author of "The Martian Race" involves the idea of a Library of Life, which preserves earlier life forms.
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  Eater

  by Gregory Benford

  Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton's world. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist's beloved wife and partner -- ex-astronaut-turned astronomer -- is dying. But something looms alarningly on the far edge of the solar system: at once a scientific find of unparalleled importance that could ensure the Knowltons' immortality, and a... (more)
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  Cosm

  by Gregory Benford

  After an accident in a brilliant young physicist's most ambitious experiment, it appears: a wondrous sphere the size of a basketball, made of nothing known to science. Before long, it will be clear that this object has opened a vista on an entirely different universe, a newborn cosmos whose existence will rock this world and test one woman to the limit: the physicist who has ignited this thrilling adventure. Only... (more)
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  Saturn Game/Iceborn (Tor Doubles, No 14)

  by Poul Anderson, Gregory Benford, Paul A. Carter

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  Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia

  by Gregory Benford

  Combining the logical rigor with the lyrical finesse of a novelist , award-winning author Gregory Benford explores these and other fascinating questions in this provocative analysis of humanity's attempts to make its culture immortal.  In Deep Time he confronts our growing influence on events hundreds of thousands of years into the future and explores the possible "messeges" we may transmit to our distant... (more)
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  Shiva Descending

  by Gregory Benford, William Rotsler

  The first strikes destroyed Cleveland, Tunis, and parts of Alaska, Canada, and Australia. That was barely the beginning. The swarm-- a cloud of meteors and asteroids 50,000 miles across--was coming. Hundred of missiles put Earth under siege forcing the world in a panicked hell of anarchy and catastrophe. Riots and orgies rampaged in the rubble. And worse waited. Because at the swarm's heart was Shiva--a 30... (more)
• Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War IIGregory Benford, Martin H. Greenberg

  

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  Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II

  by Gregory Benford

  Eleven well-known British writersM. Kornbluth, Hilary Bailey, Greg Bear, Keith Roberts, David Brin, Brad Linaweaver, Sheila Finch, Algis Budrys, Howard Goldsmith, Tom Shippey and Gregory Benfordcontribute tales that delineate a theme: even if the Nazis had won World War II, it would have been a hollow victory. The Germans portrayed here are as gray as the field-grade uniform. The settings range from a psychedelic... (more)
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  Alternate Wars (What Might Have Been, Vol. 3)

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  Alternate Empires (What Might Have Been, Vol. 1)

  by Gregory Benford

  Startling alternative history has been a popular sub-genre of military history and science fiction for years and has recently reached new heights of popularity with Harry Turtledove's epic alternative histories of WWII and the American Civil War. Gregory Benford, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author, here collects original stories by such luminaries as Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley... (more)
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  Jupiter Project

  by Gregory Benford

  The Jovian Astronautical-Biological Orbital Laboratory circles Jupiter and its moons--a metal shell bathed in lethal radiation, held in tenuous place by the gravity of the massive gas giant like a fragile glass ornament in a monstrous fist. For seventeen-year-old Matt Bohles and his friends, "the Can" is home. Life onboard the aging space station is cramped, spartan, and dangerous. Its mission--to monitor incoming... (more)
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  In Alien Flesh

  by Gregory Benford

  Reginri was just trying to make some extra cash, doing some off-planet work. He knew the risks, but he didn't know how his life would be changed forever by his contact with the huge aliens on a watery world.